Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Canadian Cancer Cure update! Success!
I've been helping to support experiments at Univ of Alberta, testing the effectiveness of Dichloroacetate (DCA) as a cancer cure.
There hasn't been any news for a couple years, until today:
Yay!
Dichloroacetate is a simple chemical that develops on its own in city water systems, and it's so easy to synthesize that Big Pharma is completely uninterested in working with it. No huge profits, no way to monopolize a patent.
That's exactly why this is so important. It opens up a super-cheap cancer cure.
And obviously that's why the research has to be supported by ordinary people.
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A bit later: Google finds one unsurprising fact and one surprising fact.
Unsurprising: This discovery is well-covered in Canadian media but not mentioned even once in American media.
Consider that every US cable "news" program and every US "local" TV "news" broadcast includes at least one item each day about some kind of cancer study ... or more precisely, one item each day about some kind of breast cancer study. American "news" is, after all, written solely by women and solely for women. Well, now we have a genuine and likely cure for many cancers, which is already known to work on breast cancer in mice, and will be tested next on breast cancer in humans. You'd think such a wonderful development would merit just one brief mention? Nah. Only the expensive high-profit stuff gets mentioned in America. If it's not on a corporate press release, it doesn't exist.
Surprising: On this same day, an Edmonton man was arrested in Phoenix for selling fake DCA, apparently just sugar.
There is plenty of underground web-based interest in DCA, showing that (as usual) the people know the truth no matter how hard our Gramscian masters try to keep it from us.
What's specifically surprising, and maybe even a bit hopeful: American authorities arrested the faker, not the real researchers. ¶ 12:56 PM
There hasn't been any news for a couple years, until today:
Medical Researchers at the University of Alberta reported today evidence that the orphan generic drug Dichloroacetate (DCA) may hold promise as potential therapy for perhaps the deadliest of all human cancers: a form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. The report is published at the journal Science Translational Medicine, a journal of the American Association of the Advancement of Science; it appears today at the journal's web site http://www.sciencemag.org/
In 2007 the U of A team led by Dr Michelakis, published evidence that DCA reverses cancer growth in non-human models and test tubes. The team showed then that DCA achieves these antitumor effects by altering the metabolism of cancer. By altering the way cancer handles its nutrient fuels, specifically the sugars, DCA was able to take away cancer's most important strength, the resistance to death [of the cancer cells, that is!] Since then, several independent groups across the world have confirmed the Alberta team's findings. In December 2009, the editors of "Science" predicted that cancer metabolism is one of only 5 areas across all scientific disciplines, to "watch for major breakthroughs" in 2010.
The U of A team set out to show that the way that DCA works in actual patients is the same with the way it works in the lab. In addition, researchers wanted to show whether DCA is safe and possibly effective in very sick patients with brain cancer.
By extracting glioblastomas from 49 patients over a period of 2 years and studying them within minutes of removal in the operating room, the team showed that tumors respond to DCA by changing their metabolism. Then, the team treated 5 patients with advanced glioblastoma and secured tumor tissues before and after the DCA therapy. By comparing the two, the team showed that DCA works in these tumors exactly as was predicted by test tube experiments.
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The U of A results are encouraging and support the need for larger clinical trials with DCA. This work is also one of the first in humans to support the emerging idea that altering the metabolism of tumors is a new direction in the treatment of cancer, Michelakis and Petruk said.
One of the intriguing features of this work was that it was funded largely by public donations, including philanthropic foundations and individuals. In addition, it received support by Alberta public institutions, both the University of Alberta and Alberta Health Sciences. The multidisciplinary team that performed this challenging translational research included members of the Departments of Medicine, Diagnostic Imaging and Biomedical Engineering, Oncology and Neurosurgery. Clinicians, scientists, nurses and graduate students worked together for 2 years and express their gratitude to the people of Alberta, philanthropists, the patients and their families.
Yay!
Dichloroacetate is a simple chemical that develops on its own in city water systems, and it's so easy to synthesize that Big Pharma is completely uninterested in working with it. No huge profits, no way to monopolize a patent.
That's exactly why this is so important. It opens up a super-cheap cancer cure.
And obviously that's why the research has to be supported by ordinary people.
= = = = =
A bit later: Google finds one unsurprising fact and one surprising fact.
Unsurprising: This discovery is well-covered in Canadian media but not mentioned even once in American media.
Consider that every US cable "news" program and every US "local" TV "news" broadcast includes at least one item each day about some kind of cancer study ... or more precisely, one item each day about some kind of breast cancer study. American "news" is, after all, written solely by women and solely for women. Well, now we have a genuine and likely cure for many cancers, which is already known to work on breast cancer in mice, and will be tested next on breast cancer in humans. You'd think such a wonderful development would merit just one brief mention? Nah. Only the expensive high-profit stuff gets mentioned in America. If it's not on a corporate press release, it doesn't exist.
Surprising: On this same day, an Edmonton man was arrested in Phoenix for selling fake DCA, apparently just sugar.
There is plenty of underground web-based interest in DCA, showing that (as usual) the people know the truth no matter how hard our Gramscian masters try to keep it from us.
What's specifically surprising, and maybe even a bit hopeful: American authorities arrested the faker, not the real researchers. ¶ 12:56 PM
