http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=330550

http://www.dichloroacetate.org/

http://www.jorgenmodin.net/index_html ... edel-ddar-cancer-i-provrr

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetic_acid



Billigt patentfritt läkemedel dödar cancer i provrör
Ett läkemedel, dikloroacetat (dichloroacetate DCA), som använts vid visa ämnesomsättningssjukdomar, har nu visat sig vara effektivt mot cancerceller in vitro och till viss del i möss. Läkemedlet är tydligen snorbilligt, men annan typ av finansiering än den från läkemedelsbolag behövs nog för vidare studier, eftersom läkemedlet inte går att patentera.

Forskarna bakom upptäckten har en annan teori om hur cancer uppstår än den gängse. Man menar att en svältande cell ställer om till glykolys (istället för att använda mitokondrier) för energiproduktion. Detta stänger av mitokondrierna och därmed vidhängande programmerad celldöd. Dikloroacetat väcker upp mitokondrierna igen och den programmerade celldöden börjar fungera igen.




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.