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Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical

companies are not interested.

Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer

last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple

technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is

currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side

effects or about their long term effects.

This drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply

compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.

Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it

killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It

was tested on Rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they

were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the

technique is easy to use, why the major drug companies are not involved? Or the

Media interested in this find?

In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria,

but they need to be triggered to be effective. Scientists used to think that

these mitochondria cells were damaged and thus ineffective against cancer. So

they used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in curing cancer and

more wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on this glycolysis method to fight

cancer. This DCA on the other hand doesn’t rely on glycolysis instead on

mitochondria; it triggers the mitochondria which in turn fights the cancer

cells.

The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You

see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can't

be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be

extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again die.

With glycolysis turned off, the body produces less lactic acid, so the bad

tissue around cancer cells doesn't break down and seed new tumors.

Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA method

cannot be patented, without a patent they can’t make money, like they are

doing now with their AIDS Patent. Since the pharmaceutical companies won’t

develop this, the article says other independent laboratories should start

producing this drug and do more research to confirm all the above findings and

produce drugs. All the groundwork can be done in collaboration with the

Universities, who will be glad to assist in such research and can develop an

effective drug for curing cancer.

You can access the original research for this cancer here.

This article wants to raise awareness for this study, hope some independent

companies and small startup will pick up this idea and produce these drugs,

because the big companies won’t touch it for a long time.

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