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Originally posted by jon jon lol

smart ass... i completely copied and pasted that, none of it was me writing it.

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Originally posted by SuperJimbo You are not a unique and beautiful snowflake, no matter how many guestlists you put yourself on.

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Originally posted by Orko Cancer is old age. Deal with it. The human body has to die some how.

you normally are very intellegent in your comments....

...old age... yes... tell that to the cancer ward in sick kids hospital.

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Originally posted by SuperJimbo You are not a unique and beautiful snowflake, no matter how many guestlists you put yourself on.

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Originally posted by MKpacha Link to official report from university of alberta New Scientist Article

I saw this a couple weeks ago as well...can't remember where. Amazing. I love pharmeceutical companies

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Originally posted by urban_legend If they did release this the world would get over populated and the old will get older........natural selection, let Darwin do his thing.

My Dad died a horrible death of cancer 2 years ago
I hope you fuck off and die you arrogant uncaring fuck

Oh noes it's the big bad PharmaCos! And you just know that Bush is behind it too!!

Alright folks, seriously, let's chill the fuck out. If this did cure cancer, who do you think would profit from it? That's right, the pharmaceutical companies, you dolts.

The fact is, all that's happened so far is that some researchers at a university did a few experiments and got some interesting results. Nobody else has duplicated those experiments yet, there haven't been any clinical tests or RCTs yet, and even in their preliminary conclusions they found that it could cure some types of cancer, not that it always cured all types of cancer. At best, it's not a universal cure, and at worst, the clinical trials could fail outright (as has already happened with previous "cures").

This is not to say we shouldn't be optimistic, but I'm struggling to understand the logic of flagellating the pharmaceutical companies because of a lack of media attention. You do know that nearly every journalist hates them too, right? And even if they didn't, how would it make a difference?

It hasn't gotten a ton of media attention yet because the findings aren't conclusive yet - for all they know, this could be another Cold Fusion. End of story.

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Originally posted by urban_legend If they did release this the world would get over populated and the old will get older........natural selection, let Darwin do his thing.

my grandfather died a few years ago at only 63 from cancer. And he went painfully.

I hope you fucking rot in hell you useless, ignorant FUCK!

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Originally posted by Orko Cancer is old age. Deal with it. The human body has to die some how.

NOO! IS not!

A friend of mine passed away recently from blood cancer. He was only 20 and took a year for him to die after he knew he had it.
Poor kid quited smoking 2 month before he figured about his condition.

Aside from that even newborn kids can have cancer. So a cure can change the face of the world significantly.

P.S I really hope the news is right and the drug is usefull.

i say on with overpopulation! someone needs to pay my pension

It needs proper toxicology testing. Alkyl halides such as this have been known to cause cancer and genetic damage.

Some of the studies don't sound promising at all:

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A randomized controlled trial in children with congenital lactic acidosis found that while DCA was well-tolerated, it was ineffective in improving clinical outcomes.[5] A separate trial of DCA in children with MELAS (a syndrome of inadequate mitochondrial function, leading to lactic acidosis) was halted early as 15 out of 15 of the children receiving DCA experienced significant nerve toxicity without any evidence of benefit from the medication.[6] A randomized controlled trial of DCA in adults with lactic acidosis found that while DCA lowered blood lactate levels, it had no clinical benefit and did not improve hemodynamics or survival.[7] Thus, while early case reports and pre-clinical data suggested that DCA might be effective for lactic acidosis, subsequent controlled trials have found no clinical benefit of DCA in this setting. In addition, clinical trial subjects were incapable of continuing on DCA as a study medication due to progressive toxicities.

In a petri dish it may look kind to normal cells and not to cancer cells, but all sorts of crazy shit probably happens when it actually gets into the body. Difluoroacetic acid might be a little safer, but I doubt it, as I said before halogenated alkyl chains tend to be dangerous.

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Originally posted by Masonious you win again dude - and nice move shoving the whole i figured out how to order pizza thing in my face. i tried that 4 and a half months ago and woke up with a Taiwanese transvestite but to Ygrene it's just, "anoother day in the life, noooo biggieee".

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Originally posted by DigiNut

you're on fire today

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