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News: Cure for Cancer Ignored by Government
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Cure for Cancer Ignored by Government
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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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http://www.sott.net/articles/show/22...e-takes-notice
This news is becoming viral.
Thoughts?
Obviously there's a lot of controversy over this as not much research has been done and because of it, no funding is being put into releasing it but surely more research should be the main priority. The drug is potentially dangerous but it hasn't been tested yet and should be.
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Member Since: 3/30/2011
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Load of ********. people have no understanding of the simple (yet at the same time complex) mechanisms that cause cancer. A glioblastoma in the brain acts VERY differently from ductal breast cancer. Heck, even cancers of the same organ but of different cell lines are very different from eachother with different prognosis.
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Originally posted by thisisit
Load of ********.
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Cures like this actually pop up every so often. For whatever reason, companies don't want to invest in it. Without that money there's really nothing to be done.
Everyone wants to put their company's name on the cure, but no one wants to spend their money or risk their credibility in case it fails. That's the world we live in.
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And once again, it's all about money..
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Originally posted by Katie
Cures like this actually pop up every so often. For whatever reason, companies don't want to invest in it. Without that money there's really nothing to be done.
Everyone wants to put their company's name on the cure, but no one wants to spend their money or risk their credibility in case it fails. That's the world we live in.
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It's sad.
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Yes lets blame big bad society and not consider that whoever wrote the article has no idea what they're on about.
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Originally posted by thisisit
Load of ********. people have no understanding of the simple (yet at the same time complex) mechanisms that cause cancer. A glioblastoma in the brain acts VERY differently from ductal breast cancer. Heck, even cancers of the same organ but of different cell lines are very different from eachother with different prognosis.
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We'll trust the scientists on this one.
Your quote doesn't even make sense.
Also like Katie said, this isn't the first time actual methods for curing cancer have been establish. It's about the funding and support.
Clueless members can leave now.
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Member Since: 4/26/2010
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Originally posted by thisisit
Yes lets blame big bad society and not consider that whoever wrote the article has no idea what they're on about.
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Gurl when you get your Biology/Science doctorate, come the **** back to me. Until then, you're dismissed ------------------->
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Originally posted by thisisit
Yes lets blame big bad society and not consider that whoever wrote the article has no idea what they're on about.
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I don't blame the big bad companies. I'm not even one of those people that blames the media for things. I believe in the power of people, and if we really wanted something done, it would be done. Most people just don't care if it doesn't directly impact their daily lives. (I'm included.) If humans band together, you'd be amazed at what we can accomplish.
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We'll trust the scientists on this one.
Your quote doesn't even make sense.
Also like Katie said, this isn't the first time actual methods for curing cancer have been establish. It's about the funding and support.
Clueless members can leave now.
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Not just cancer cures. There's been some HIV ones that I've seen as well. But there's still not a guarantee they'd work for everyone/every strain, that's why they need funding to expand. Funding they wouldn't get because it's not definite. It's a catch 22.
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Healthy people don't buy medicine. No money to be made for cures. It's all in the sickness so naturally the government isn't interested.
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Originally posted by -Lewymocha-
We'll trust the scientists on this one.
Your quote doesn't even make sense.
Also like Katie said, this isn't the first time actual methods for curing cancer have been establish. It's about the funding and support.
Clueless members can leave now.
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Yes, let's trust the separate groups of scientists in multiple pharmaceutical companies who have all clearly decided this is false.
If there was a reasonable chance this was some magical instant cancer-away treatment, companies and governments would snap it up. This is about as believable as that boy dying after jacking off 42 times.
Cancer is a broad term. Many, many kinds of cancer are easily curable today.
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this is a mess, do they realize that this disease is serious
they did the same thing with the HIV thing
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It's really disgusting how money trumps even the saving of lives.
Pharmaceutical companies are as greedy as the oil industry.
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Originally posted by Ghandi
Healthy people don't buy medicine. No money to be made for cures. It's all in the sickness so naturally the government isn't interested.
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You do realize the government isn't a company, right? They don't make profits. If there was validity in this claim, the government would be interested.
This may shock some people, but the world isn't one big conspiracy to kill you and your family.
@Katie: I'm glad someone else thinks like this. I hate people who blame their problems on society/media/corporations "I'm 345lb, but it's McDonalds fault! I'm an innocent victim!"
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Originally posted by thisisit
You do realize the government isn't a company, right? They don't make profits. If there was validity in this claim, the government would be interested.
This may shock some people, but the world isn't one big conspiracy to kill you and your family.
@Katie: I'm glad someone else thinks like this. I hate people who blame their problems on society/media/corporations "I'm 345lb, but it's McDonalds fault! I'm an innocent victim!"
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That's why I wanted to throw that out there. I don't blame companies for not donating money, I don't blame fast food for making people fat, Marilyn Manson didn't cause school shootings, Britney didn't turn teen girls into ****s, and girls won't get pregnant because they watch Teen Mom. If I missed any let me know. But really, I don't do the blame game. Like I said above, we as humanity can outnumber ANY organization or group individually. We just don't want to/are too lazy to.
And for the record, I'm not defending this story in particular. I didn't even look at the source yet. I was basing it off the idea of "cure's" being rejected for funding. THAT does happen. I'll check more into this one now, but we all know it does happen.
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Originally posted by Katie
That's why I wanted to throw that out there. I don't blame companies for not donating money, I don't blame fast food for making people fat, Marilyn Manson didn't cause school shootings, Britney didn't turn teen girls into ****s, and girls won't get pregnant because they watch Teen Mom. If I missed any let me know. But really, I don't do the blame game.
And for the record, I'm not defending this story in particular. I didn't even look at the source yet. I was basing it off the idea of "cure's" being rejected for funding. THAT does happen. I'll check more into this one now, but we all know it does happen.
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Regardless, if there was a magical cure for all forms of cancer, there would NOT be a lack of funding.
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Originally posted by thisisit
Regardless, if there was a magical cure for all forms of cancer, there would NOT be a lack of funding.
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I didn't say there was a magical one. Like I said above, there's many kinds of cancers and the people that have them are way different as well. It would take quite a bit of testing to figure out if one works for ALL (which I doubt) but it could lead to figuring out what works for what. This can only happen with funding. The idea comes first, money second, cure third.
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The article told you all why they would never invest in such a thing. Cancer is a $900B a year business.
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