Scientists have found a cure for cancer??

[PLATO]

That only works when someone has done all the research that's needed to convince the FDA. Nobody's going to foot the bill for that if they aren't guaranteed a significant share of the market to cover it --and with no patent, they aren't.

Can you say "overseas market"?

If it really works, someone will do it.

[Guynemer]

[The Mad Monk]

Can you be more specific?

[MrFun]

That only works when someone has done all the research that's needed to convince the FDA. Nobody's going to foot the bill for that if they aren't guaranteed a significant share of the market to cover it --and with no patent, they aren't.

good point

[MrFun]

aaawww . . . what ails you?

[onodera]

I've read about DCA about 5 years ago. Nothing's changed. Shouldn't the fed foot the bill for clinical testing if no one will?

[Proteus_MST]

There have been follow up studies after the 2007 study and it seems to be promising (not as some kind of Panacea, but at least as a supplemental drug in the chemotherapy of several kinds of cancer)

http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/2/31/31ra34

http://www.medicorcancer.com/dca-data.html

[The Mad Monk]

I've read about DCA about 5 years ago. Nothing's changed. Shouldn't the fed foot the bill for clinical testing if no one will?

No, they serve as a check on the phama's work. I think the govt keeps hands off to prevent ethics issues.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

I think the govt keeps hands off to prevent ethics issues.

Would that they did in more endeavors.

[Provost Harrison]

I've invested $100k in a start-up firm to exploit this technology. I am going to be minted.

Good investment, but first, can we "borrow" another $100m for the clinical trial? No risk, no risk at all

[Titanboss]

Well, to correct you. Cancer arises in nucleus not mitochondria. Changes in the chromosomes leads to proliferation and decreased apoptosis. Mitochondria is still there. So majority anti-cancerous drugs target the nucleus of the cell not the mitochondria.

[Titanboss]

However,cancer cells change the way they metabolize oxygen in a way that promotes their survival. The major difference between a normal cell and a cancerous cell is that normal cells repair themselves and if they cant they undergo destruction but cancer causing cell can not do so. In laboratory studies of isolated cancer cells grown in tissue culture, DCA restores the original metabolism, and promotes their self-destruction. This has led to the use of DCA for treating cancer, by individuals experimenting with it themselves, by doctors administering it to patients as a non-approved drug, by scientists testing it in cancer tissue cultures in cell culture and in mice, and in human Phase II studies. DCA has improved certain biochemical parameters, but it has not demonstrated improved survival

[Sava]

IMA THROW A PIECE OF STANK AT YOU

[KrazyHorse]

not even sure what a piece of stank would entail

[Sava]

you cant run!
WHERE IS THE **** IS THAT BLLUE *****
she had my nuts in a pouch