Is this the cure for cancer?

Question

..and are pharmaceutical (spelling?) companies really so concerned about money that they wont support certain drugs because of the monetary gains, or lack thereof?

this may not be the cure for cancer, and i cant say it is because im not a doctor, but it is interesting...

http://media.www.studentprintz.com/media/storage/paper974/news/2007/01/23/Opinion/Scientists.Cure.Cancer.But.No.One.Takes.Notice-2667600.shtml

i realize this has already been posted/asked, but i would really like to keep this information and this site circulating throughout the internet.

Answer 1

According to wikipedia, some people get peripheral nerve damage from this drug..whenever someone says "no side effects"...beware..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetate

Answer 2

This idea is the result of public misunderstanding of the wonderful world of patents.

Most people think that once a compound has been patented, you cannot patent it again. WRONG. In the document you submit to the patent office, you have to put the *usage* of your chemical, invention, gadget or whatever. So basically, if you have a different usage for, say dichloroacetate (DCA), you can write a new patent describing the treatment of cancer using this stuff, even if a previous patent exists for it. And get royalties. As long as the method is not published anywhere else. What has been found out, and published, by the team from Alberta is NOT the method, but something *indicating* that this could be tried. Why is no pharma interested ? Probably because this team is already in the patenting process. That's now a natural reflex when you find something good (you know, we scientists also think of our retirement funds, he ? And the university gets its 50% share of the money). It's a bad idea to work on something which is already in patenting process. You can get sued off your pants. Or put onto some (grant) reviewer's blacklist.

Patenting is the height of fashion in universities which get less and less independant (ie, non-pharma derived) funding. All researchers now get pressurized to produce patents which are an important source of income for their university. With the result that it considerably slows down research, because nothing can be published before completion of the patent process (sometimes years). This is the fear of all graduate students throughout the world.

What is probably going to happen in this case is that research on this is going to be slowed down not because pharmas are not interested (on the contrary, they would have been interested in something which didn't involve high development costs, and relatively immediate source of income), but because a university doesn't have the funding required to do clinical testing (VERY costly).

And of course pharmas are concerned about money. They have no choice. They're public companies (stock-based). Check your retirement funds investments. Are there any stock holdings ? Any from Pfizer, Merck, Eisai, Bohringer-Ingelheim, Shire ? Wouldn't want them to lose value all of a sudden, wouldn't you ? 'Cause that's what happens when they don't turn out a profit...

Answer 3

Take a minute to think clearly about this issue. If a cure for cancer was available, and you were a pharmaceutical company, and you could purchase the patent on that cure ... you would pay billions of dollars for it. Why? Because the company would make TRILLIONS of dollars in profits curing cancers! No drug or other cancer treatment today could compete with a true cure. No company would turn down such huge profits.

Answer 4

There is money in the medicine not in the cure. That's why there will never be a cure for cancer. Pharmaceuticals don't want the cure to be out there because that mean less money for them. Sad but true.

Answer 5

I lost my 4 yr old cousin to cancer in 1965. Got sick on Monday and was dead from a brain tumor by Friday. I lost my Grandfather to cancer in 1973(lung cancer). Sick for about 5 mo.. In 1982 i lost my 17 yr old cousin to a rare form of cancer that only a handful of people had had before. They wrote volumes on his condition as he had had it for 10 yrs and it kept moving. It was identified as Hystitosis X. Back then my family Doctor had not even heard of it .Today all doctors know of it. My aunt died from breast / lung cancer and she never smoked a day in her life and she was a school teacher so her environment didn't give it to her. Mother was diagnosed with bone and lung cancer in Nov. of 2003. I learned about all the different forms of cancer then. Small cell , fast moving cancer, large cell, slow moving cancer. The same mo. my Mother - in - law was diagnosed with mesothelioma, cancer caused from asbestos and she never worked a day in a factory. 2 of the most beloved people in my life were going to die with cancer. It was then that I found out their are more forms of cancer than there are stars in the sky and they are diagnosing more different types every day it seems. Also there are as many differnt treatments for many forms of cancer If there was one "magic pill" to cure any and all forms of cancer or a vaccine to prevent all types of cancer I am sure the pharmaceutical companies would release it as billions could be made from the prevention and cure verses treatments that just slow down or stop the cancer by putting it in remission only to have it resurface1-5 yrs later or to just delay death by a few mo.I guess the best way to treat cancer is to detect it in the earliest stages and go after it with aggressive chemo and / or radiation. But even if my Mother - in - law had found out sooner there was still no treatment for her type of cancer which is caused by asbestos. We live in a society today where lifespans are longer. We also live in an enviroment where if we see an ant or two in the house we use chemicals to kill them . whether they are in our house or crawling in the yard or on the back of our pets we spray . All the chemicals used in today's society I'm sure doesn't help or hurt the reasons people get cancer. I even read where that "New Car Smell" can cause cancer. You should research "cancer" as you would be amazed at all the different types and places you can get cancer at, and how it spreads and develops Even too much sun and too little sun will cause it.Science is working on new treatments and identifying DNA and Genes and how it mutates I guess by figuring out cancers' origin begins starts a way to lead to a cure or prevention. The best way to keep this going is to do some research yourself on this "disease". Who knows, maybe you will be the one to unlockthe mysteries and origins and find a cure. Then you could retire far richer than Bill Gates or all tha Arab sheiks controlling the oil

Answer 6

No treatment is as effective as NCD--Natural Cellular Defense--a newly released natural health product that causes no side-effects and promises to take control of cancer cell production speed within 72 hours.It shocked doctors in USA and Hong Kong(where i live)by having a curing rate of over 85 % and is the first product that is not labelled as a medicine but can cure ALL TYPES OF CANCERS.It can also delay cataracts and cure some mental illnesses.
NCD has caused many medicine factories to end up business.That's why many doctors who r afraid that their living will be effected,claim that NCD is a fake.Yet luckily,many have written medical reports to compliment it and have introduced it to hopeless cancer patients PRIVATELY(cuz hospitals won't allow docs to use other treatments other than those offered by the hospital).If u don't know about it and criticise it like some arrogant pigheads,then check it out for it has countless websites proving its amazing ability.

Answer 7

Of course. They always drop the funding when it is not economically feasable. Cancer is the second larges GNP, only second to Oil which is our number one (Gross National Product).

No, my friends... the cancer industry is not interested in a cure. Would you want to shut down your multi billion dollar industry?

In News Week, Time Magazine and The New Yorker all have articles that validate the fact that the Cancer Industry is not interested in a cure. It's right under our noses and is not hidden information.

There are many cures that are non toxic and natural that work with the bodies own immune system, but there is no money in a cure for the pharmaceutical industry. I mean, think clearly on this... A cure would shut the entire multi billion dollar cancer treatment industry down.

Here's a news flash. The body does it on its own with the proper nutritional tools that are "missing" in the modern diet. Its been done and is still going on to this day.

You don't get cancer because you are radiation and chemotherapy deficient, you get cancer because your immune system failed you from years of an improper diet and oxidative stress from the environment. The enironmental stress is so toxic that its the leading cause of death in children, now.

See "When Healing Becomes a Crime" on the link resource, here in DSL speed: http://www.altcancer.com/video/hoxsey_DSL.wmv

When the AMA formed, they kicked the Hoxey clinics that were curing people out of the US in the 1950's and lobbied chemotherapy and radiation. Here's a News Flash, the editor and chief of the American Medical Association never went to medical school or took a day of anatomy in his life. If natural and they can't patent it, there is no money in it. This is also the same time they started a war with chiropracters which were the doctors of choice at that time. They called them Allopaths, which is a propaganda ploy that litterally means, "The others."

Chirpractors have helped people avoid drugs and unecessary surgeries by working with the autonomic nervous system as the body is seen as a garden, not car parts from some Frankenstonian movie like the medical profession. They just burn, slice and dice.

Natural versus chemical...

If you can patent a chemical and make a drug out of it, you own the patent and there is money in it. Look at the statistics... the modern day Journal of the American Medical Association now states that the US and Canada's fourth leading cause of death are from properly prescribed drugs and medical mistakes.

According to the World Health Organization ,the US ranks 37th in the World for health care. Why? We are only managing disease. It's a failed system and our insurance is no longer affordable because of this economic conspiracy.

They further created a law to suppress natural supplements. Meaning, if it can cure Aids and it doesn't have an LD50 rating (a toxic half life that can kill a rat), then it cannot be marketed as a drug.

Did you know if you said limes cure scurvy... its a Federal Offense?

Long ago over 4,000 sailors died of scurvy because the Royal Society laughed at Captain Cooks findings with the ships Surgeon... that if they simply carried limes on the ships, they wouldn't die of scurvy.

Did you know that when the AMA formed they had political ties to pass a law in 1947 to protect us from snake oil salesmen, but it had a backlash.. you didn't have the right to use or see any studies to back up natural remedies.

Did you know that snake oil contains an Omega 3 Fatty acid that has been medically proven to reduce cancer risks and reverse heart disease? Why do you think Kraft Foods was sued for putting trans fats in their foods? Because man made trans fats cause disease and fatty acids reverse it.

Since the DSHEA Law passed in Congress in 1994, doctors and laymen now have the "right" to see science to back up particular dietary supplements.

Educated minds make educated decisions so I thank God for the DSHEA Law of 1994, as I don't have to be a doctor to exercise my rights to educate myself on natural or alternative healing without getting my arm cut off just because of skin cancer... you put cansema on it and the cancer simply dies off. The native Indians have known about it for centuries. It's just blood root and its cheap.

Answer 8

wat is ur meaning?
i think cancer is no more cure haha