Cure for Cancer...it appears
Check out the news...above
A simple known drug, DCA, dichloroacetate will
probably not get trials because there is no profit
in it for pharmaceuticals. If there is no money in it,
there is no interest in healing and you can be sure
the Cancer Foundations, who pull in all the millions,
will have nothing to do with finding a simple cure
because then they would be out of business.
We already know that the chemical industry that
makes and adds carcinogens to our life, also makes
the treatment drugs that almost kill people. How can
they give up such profitable products?
posted by corewell at 7:19 PM
3 Comments:
You can't believe everything you read. Scientists have cured human and animal cancers time and time again. Usually, up to 50% or more of the time, the animal results can't be translated or reproduced in people because people aren't mice. Cancer is a failure of the immune system to catch malignant cells who have failed to commit cellular suicide via normal control systems that are in place to prevent usch an occurance in the first place. Immunologists are finding out just now how different our immune responses are from other animals and why treatments to stimulate the immune system to fight cancers often fail. And you are right and you are wrong about simple chemical treatsments against cancer. Asprin has been documented to prevent various ailments including stroke, and colorectal cancers because it is a COX2 inhibitor. There are competing factors here. HMOs would rather give you a pill than treat you surgically for a condition. But surgery, if early enough, is the best treatment to prevent a tumor from spreading and becoming a serious threat to your life. Yet, at least one cancer has a magic bullet that stops it chemically. A doctor made or screened for a specific inhibitor that stops one from of lymphatic or blood related cancer that had no treatment and was fatal.
The human world is messy. Larry Gold told an audience I was in one time that pharms don't keep their research secret because they are trade secrets. They keep their research secret because they don't want people to know how poor their research really is. Often drugs make it to market based on what the CEO or President of the firm hears in the hallways, not on the merits of the drug itself. Or the drug's purpose gets subverted by people themselves. Viagra was developed for coronary conditions because NO affects the heart, lungs and circulatory system. Then people found out that it triggers male erections and you have the first modern aphrodisiac. You'd have thunk it? :)
I stand corrected. There may be something to this. In Science, it's called serendipity, or the prepared mind. This link has the abstract: http://www.cancercell.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS1535610806003722
Seems like nice straightforward work. Don't dispair. Doctors can prescribe common drugs at their discretion. Oncologists will try it just to see if it works, though it might take 10 years or more for the whole community to accept it. The medical field is funny. Some discoveries are accepted overnight and some take a generation or more. Doctors and scientists have that in common.
I appreciate your response because sometimes I get caught up in 'what's
wrong' in the world. Your knowledge and perception benefit all of us.
Post a Comment
<< Home