A Real Cure for CANCER?

A few days ago an interesting newsletter came across my email. I have seen many articles claiming a cure for cancer, from Barley Grass to Hydrogenperoxide all have failed to live up to their promise. This is not unexpected since the best cancer researchers in the world still do not agree upon how a normal cell becomes cancerous.

This new article was featured on the January 20th e-newsletter form newscientist.com. The link for the article is : http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19325874.700-cheap-safe-drug-kills-most-cancers.html. This is an exciting development if all the facts become known and the follow-up research is carried on.

I am going to summarize the article only because I think you should read this for yourself. Scientists at the University of Alberta in Edmonton found that by using the chemical dichloroacetate, abnormal cancerous cells switched back form using glycolysis to using their mitochondria. So what you say. This is big. Very, very big. The mitochondria in addition to providing the individual cells energy also serve the body by telling an abnormal cell to self destruct. Which means the cancer cells kill themselves without the use of toxic chemotherapy or radiation treatments.

I googled dichloroacetate and found several citations. A rat study showed that 80% of rats infected with human cancer cells survived when fed dichloroacetate. Rats are a long way form humans, but it is a start. The only problem with this drug is that it is not patent protected.
Why is this a problem? None of the big drug companies are going to invest millions of dollars that they cannot exclusively sell. So this means that others are going to have to contribute money in order to do the research to see if this is the magic bullet medical science has been looking for the last 50 years.

Thanks for spending a part of your day here with me,

James