Talk:Cheap, safe drug shows potential to kill cancer cells
Still Important edit
This article has been listed on the proposed article for about two weeks so I quickly wrote and published it. I think that it is still current and important news. Please add any new information. Thanks TheVault 06:33, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Cost edit
Probably won't be so cheap if it really is an effective cure for cancer :(
- Well, if it really isn't patented, and someone tries to sell it for an outrageous profit, one need only swap distributors for one that sells it at a more reasonable price. Blast 12,02,07 1012 (UTC -5)
The drug is not patentable, because it is very old. The problem is that no one wants to manufacture it becausethey have to do clinical studies, and competitors can easily drop the price. This probably should also be in the news, just to let people know who is killing them. Does it work? Probably. Cost...less than acetone. Will we see it on the shelves? I don't think so.
Update December 30 2008
A lot has changed in the (nearly) two years since the original wiki article was published. As of December 2008 DCA is being utilized to treat cancer with varying degrees of success by thousands of individuals around the world.
A few patients have documented complete remission. A more common outcome of DCA treatment is to turn cancer into a chronic, low-level disease with few or no toxic side effects. One example of the latter by the author of this update: http://www.thedcasite.com/dcaforum/DCForumID2/244.html
Physicians at the Medicor Clinic in Canada are treating cancer patients with DCA, reporting a positive response rate of 60 - 70%.
http://www.medicorcancer.com/DCAtherapy.html
http://www.medicorcancer.com/DCAtherapyData.html
Pharmaceutical grade Sodium DCA can be purchased online and shipped everywhere except the United States:
Compounding pharmacies can prepare Sodium Dichloroacetate with a doctors Rx.
21:38, 30 December 2008 (UTC)65.5.185.254 21:38, 30 December 2008 (UTC)