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Cure For Cancer- No one cares?
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| MKpacha |
saw this on a facebook note... it isnt sourced... maybe someone can find the orig?
Alberta School Cured Cancer and Nobody Cares. Why?
Scientists may have cured cancer last week.
Yep.
So, why haven't the media picked up on it?
Here's the deal. Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it should be no problem to use it for other purposes.
Doesn't this sound like the kind of news you see on the front page of every paper?
The drug also has no patent, which means it could be produced for bargain basement prices in comparison to what drug companies research and develop.
Scientists tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body where it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but left healthy cells alone. Rats plump with tumors shrank when they were fed water supplemented with DCA.
Again, this seems like it should be at the top of the nightly news, right?
Cancer cells don't use the little power stations found in most human cells - the mitochondria. Instead, they use glycolysis, which is less effective and more wasteful.
Doctors have long believed the reason for this is because the mitochondria were damaged somehow. But, it turns out the mitochondria were just dormant, and DCA starts them back up again.
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.
Here's the big catch. Pharmaceutical companies probably won't invest in research into DCA because they won't profit from it. It's easy to make, unpatented and could be added to drinking water. Imagine, Gatorade with cancer control.
So, the groundwork will have to be done at universities and independently funded laboratories. But, how are they supposed to drum up support if the media aren't even talking about it?
All I can do is write this and hope Google News picks it up. In the meantime, tell everyone you know and do your own research.
Just so you also know, we have a cure for aids (rocher) the same company who makes actutane (acne medication) may have been the inventor. It will not be released for at least the next 50 years due to a patent and the fact that aids relief won't generate profits. AMERICA! |
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| infinity HiGH |
| yea I'd actually like to see this sourced. a note on facebook is hardly newsworthy. |
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| MKpacha |
| quote: | Originally posted by infinity HiGH
yea I'd actually like to see this sourced. a note on facebook is hardly newsworthy. |
lol i completely agree im searching man! |
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| 8Wonders |
| Ahh, the corporate world of pharmaceutical companies. Think of how much money they make off aids and cancer drugs, gazzlions! What use would a cure be, it would be a one time cost. Return customers are the best! |
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| 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. |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | 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. |
You're forbidden to take any sort of drugs, or go to hospital for any sort of illness or injuries |
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| Abercrombie |
| I read about this in January, but I read they haven't tested it on humans yet. |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
I read about this in January, but I read they haven't tested it on humans yet. |
Aaaannd I think we may have found why nobody really cares. Good job gang! |
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| infinity HiGH |
Nice one!
Currently reading the U of A article, which has been updated about 2 weeks ago. |
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| zokissima |
| quote: | 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. |
...wow...
You can't really be serious with that, can you? Have you ever lost anyone close to you, or anyone in your family to cancer? I hope that you never have to face that fate.
The world is allready overpopulated. Witholding something so helpful to humankind, only to turn a profit from the misery of others, well I dunno, that's just the way the world works. I know that's not really the topic of this thread, but still.
In all honesty, it would not really surprise me if someone out there held the 'cure' to cancer, or AIDS, or any other number of illnesses. The academic and scientific communities have published many many various methodologies, some quite strange, and some far advanced, but none unachievable. And that's just stuff that's been publicly released... |
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| rabbitjoker |
| quote: | Originally posted by infinity HiGH
yea I'd actually like to see this sourced. |
I remember an article in the TO Star on it a number of weeks back.
http://www.thestar.com/Health/article/171616
I too am surprised with how little media attention this has received. |
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