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| Easy, Inexpensive Treatment For Cancer Drug Companies Don't Want | |
| 2007-01-17 | |
| A small, non-toxic molecule may soon be available as an inexpensive treatment for many forms of cancer, including lung, breast and brain tumours, say University of Alberta researchers. But there's a catch: the drug isn't patented, and pharmaceutical companies may not be interested in funding further research if the treatment won't make them a profit. In findings that "astounded" the researchers, the molecule known as DCA was shown to shrink lung, breast and brain tumours in both animal and human tissue experiments. "You typically get this eureka type of feeling. It's the most exciting thing a scientist can get," Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, a professor at the University of Alberta department of medicine and a key study author, told CTV News. The study was published Tuesday in the journal Cancer Cell.
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| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #13 and spits a LOT less |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-01-17 18:03 |
| #12 TW has a a better slugging percentage Frank. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-01-17 17:58 |
| #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 |
| #10 Mitochondria??? OK, my padwan. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2007-01-17 16:00 |
| #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 |
| #8 Anybody remember "Laetrile"? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-01-17 13:56 |
| #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 |
| #6 *giggle* That compliment was certainly unexpected, Frank dear. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-01-17 13:37 |
| #5 there you go - TW looks like a pretty Mark McGwire |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-01-17 11:55 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 2007-01-17 11:05 |
| #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 |