Scientists cure cancer, nobody notices

[columbine]

Here's the Wikipedia page for dichloroacetate / dichloroacetic acid.

Love, Columbine (reaching for the chlorpheniramine maleate because I have a sinus infection)

[Karen]

Hey folks, the article does say that research is continuing into this matter, scientists are pursuing it. There's no conspiracy against it.

Considering how many kinds of cancer there are, how varied the causes and effects are, I doubt any one thing could "cure" them all.

From the original article, probably added after it was posted here:

EDITORS NOTE:

Since the original publication of this article we have been inundated with responses from the public at all walks of life. It is important to note that research is ongoing with DCA, and not everyone is convinced it will turn out to be a miracle drug. There have been many therapies that were promising in vitro and in animal models that did not work for one reason or another in humans. To provide false hope is not our intention. There is a lot of information on DCA available on the web, and this column is but one opinion on the topic. We hope you will do your own research into the situation. So, we have added links to resources at the end of this column. If you are arriving here form a linking website like Fark, then those links will not appear because they tend to grab only the text. For those visitors, here is a link to the original research: www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca

[Catty1]

If research is continuing, then there will be pre-clinical and clinical trials. The results can take 10 years before a drug is approved by Health Canada (our version of the FDA).

sad...a few years ago, the Mayo clinic discovered a compound that regrew myelin in rats, M1 myoclonal antibodies.

Acorda Therapeutics got the go-ahead to research and develop it. They were so good about explaining how clinical testing works, and had me on their mail list.

This was incredible news for people with MS, where the myelin is destroyed...but it is not on the market yet, and my sister died of MS last year.

She and we knew about this stuff...but it takes time, damn it.

And a young lady I know now with MS has one of the new drugs, and the effect has been amazing!

So for the future folks...tremendous hope!