Promising Cancer Cure – DCA !

 

• A Canadian research team from University of Alberta Medical Department has come out with a potentially highly effective cure for most type of cancer. Led by Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, the team has conducted 2 clinical trials in Edmonton. The product DCA has been found to have almost no side effects. For more read : DCA Research 28 Oct Update .
   
• Dichloroacetic Acid (DCA) – is an inexpensive and non-patentable compound that can be bought off the shelf from chemical companies. It has been found to be very effective in killing almost all cancers. See : DCA Update: Health Canada Approves First DCA Clinical Trial in Cancer  & University of Alberta – DCA Research Information.
   
• New Scientist magazine has this to say :
   
  It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe. It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.
   
  Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.
   
  DCA attacks a unique feature of cancer cells: the fact that they make their energy throughout the main body of the cell, rather than in distinct organelles called mitochondria. This process, called glycolysis, is inefficient and uses up vast amounts of sugar.
   
  Until now it had been assumed that cancer cells used glycolysis because their mitochondria were irreparably damaged. However, Michelakis’s experiments prove this is not the case, because DCA reawakened the mitochondria in cancer cells. The cells then withered and died (Cancer Cell, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.10.020).
    
• Here is another site on DCA : Updating you on DCA and Cancer .
• However, do not expect Big Pharma to promote this product as there is no money to be made. Cancer industry generates billions of dollars in profit for Big Pharma and also employs a lot of people. So this drug is in effect a threat to Big Pharma.
   
• Note : DCA should not be used without medical supervision. Drug is still in trial stage, even though results are promising.
   

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