Cure for Cancer: No profit means no interest in it ?

Question

Cure for cancer: No profit means no interest in it ?

A research scientest at the University of Alberta believes he will have problems with research money into a simple cancer treatment; because there is not profit in it, it is not a patenable drug.

January 16, 2007 - Edmonton - DCA is an odourless, colourless, inexpensive, relatively non-toxic, small molecule. And researchers at the University of Alberta believe it may soon be used as an effective treatment for many forms of cancer.

Dr. Evangelos Michelakis, professor U of A Department of Medicine, has shown that dichloroacetate (DCA) causes regression in several cancers, including lung, breast and brain tumors.

Do you think the fact that profits cannot be made in a cure, renders much of the research money into expensive pharamceutical drugs and treatments that are not the best ?
CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2007/01/17/cancer-chemo.html#skip300x250

This is why we should try to eliminate the profit motive in disease treatment.

The healthier we are the more we can spend on GMC, Ford and Chrysler products.

Like I have said before, in Italy doctors receive a flat fee per patient per year, so they are motivated to keep you healthy and out of their offices.

Answer 1

Please do more investigation into the University of Alberta concerning this hype. All their research is already patented to a company called CardioMetabolics Inc They have exclusive rights to market DCA drugs for cancer:

http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/January2007/23/c8535.html

Please also note that there is more hype than hope going on presently about this drug. My son has a stage IV abdominal sarcoma . . don't you think that we who are suffering have more at stake than the rest of you who are just playing political games.

Let this DCA go through the Clinical Trials, if it works on even one type of cancer . . than good . . but I doubt that it will cover the over 200 types of cancers, the stages and grades, and be suitable for all ages and people who are currently suffering from cancer.

And, if any of you have any compassion, please read what the American Cancer Society says about this hyped up product:

DCA: Cancer Breakthrough Or Urban Legend?
http://www.cancer.org/aspx/blog/Comments.aspx?id=130

Answer 2

trade, regardless of what type it is, is always motivated by profit. This is part of living in a world where everything is ruled by a profit that must be gaged in some sort of material medium of trade. Spiritual profitability does not come into play because a person cannot readily place their hands on it. Much good could be done in this world if monetary profit and material showcases were set aside, but pride rules the human ego. Tell a CEO that when he dies that his wife and children will squander his fortune and he will deny it; but, the fact is that they will. People do not see the good that they can do with their education and time, they see only the profit that they can earn, profit that they must leave behind when they die. And when they stand before God, God will ask them what they did with their time, that is to say that they must account for it. God will look at what they did, what they could have done, but did not do. God will look at what they did, for whom they did it and to whom they denied what they accomplished. When God sees that the poor suffered needlessly and died before their time, that souls that could have been saved for the kingdom of heaven were instead lost because of selfishness, then he will say to them: "I do not know you. Get away from me and prepare for the devil and his angels who are burning in hellfire." God is no respecter of persons.

Answer 3

The private research money, yes. Research is still government backed too.

Answer 4

It's not the way it should be, but that's the way the world works. They want to get paid to help others.

Answer 5

Absolutely. That is why if I had cancer I would attempt to get beyond the long arm of the FDA. (Or if I had AIDS)

Answer 6

This is very sad to hear...but again money drives everything...so perhaps a responsible govt shld pay him more...and btw this qn aint religious or spiritual...lol...

Answer 7

It makes me sick, how they'll let all those ppl suffer.