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2007-01-17 Science & Technology

Easy, Inexpensive Treatment For Cancer Drug Companies Don't Want

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-17 10:45|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ..Something doesn't sound right here, and it's probably just because I don't understand how things work - but let me ask anyways. If this is so simple and so inexpensive (as compared to other cancer treatments) why doesn't somebody say, "Okay, scr*w the drug companies - here's our prospectus, we need investors!" ...?

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-01-17 10:57|| 2007-01-17 10:57|| Front Page Top

#2 When dissolved in your gas tank (full tank only, please) it gives an incredible 80 mpg!. When applied to your cell phone it eliminates dropped calls! When....

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-17 11:05|| 2007-01-17 11:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Because it's not patented. No company wants to spend the (as high as) hundreds of millions of dollars to get gov approval and then see some other outfit who didn't underwrite the trials come in and undersell them.

Though nothing prevents doctors from prescribing it for cancer, I am not so sure they want to take on the liability of prescribing an unapproved medication if something goes wrong with a patient.

Posted by ed 2007-01-17 11:09|| 2007-01-17 11:09|| Front Page Top

#4 The Nutraceutical companies will run with this. Look for bottles of the stuff in your GNC store and on the vitamin shelves of your grocery store. If it affects mitochondria positively, expect the bodybuilders to pick up on it, followed by the sports guys -- football, basketball, baseball -- first the professionals then eventually the high school junior varsity. Shoot, I was taking creatin (which also boosts mitochondrial activity) for a while to enable me to exercise, back in the early days of my damned chronic fatigue.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-17 11:49|| 2007-01-17 11:49|| Front Page Top

#5 there you go - TW looks like a pretty Mark McGwire

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-17 11:55|| 2007-01-17 11:55|| Front Page Top

#6 *giggle* That compliment was certainly unexpected, Frank dear.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-17 13:37|| 2007-01-17 13:37|| Front Page Top

#7 If they make it and it works, millions would buy it, so I don't know if this article makes any sense. Competition is always working.

Posted by Spomort Greling4204 2007-01-17 13:42|| 2007-01-17 13:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Anybody remember "Laetrile"?

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-17 13:56|| 2007-01-17 13:56|| Front Page Top

#9 TW do your genes have a similarity or resemblance as to be essentially equal or interchangeable with Mrs. Davis?

Posted by Slaviper Angomose9227 2007-01-17 15:02|| 2007-01-17 15:02|| Front Page Top

#10 Mitochondria???

OK, my padwan.

Posted by anonymous2u 2007-01-17 16:00|| 2007-01-17 16:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Don't rush out to get some...
http://rarediseases.about.com/b/a/257426.htm

Posted by Angens Glolet8133 2007-01-17 17:15|| 2007-01-17 17:15|| Front Page Top

#12 TW has a a better slugging percentage Frank.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-17 17:58|| 2007-01-17 17:58|| Front Page Top

#13 and spits a LOT less

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-01-17 18:03|| 2007-01-17 18:03|| Front Page Top

#14 TW do your genes have a similarity or resemblance as to be essentially equal or interchangeable with Mrs. Davis?

I think we humans share some 99% of our DNA in common, and I do share that much with the formidable Mrs. Davis. More than that, alas, no. Mr. Davis (and later Mrs. Davis, after a lamentable incident now receding into the mists of Rantburg history... but which apparently involved two of our more persistant trolls and a miscegenation which pains me to think about) is/are amongst the earliest Rantburg posters. I came along somewhat later, and dare make no claim in this company to being formidable. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-17 18:28|| 2007-01-17 18:28|| Front Page Top

#15 Intresting comments on the role of patents in the development of penicillin and the oral polio vaccine. If this is real, it will get to market, and quickly.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-01-17 19:07|| 2007-01-17 19:07|| Front Page Top

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