Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers

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Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers
11:58 17 January 2007
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Andy Coghlan

It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.

 

[Skye]

wow, I am suprised that the pharm companies haven't squashed this yet

 

[brk_nemesis]

hmm very nice idea using the mitochondria to 'self destruct ' the cells. I think i read and sarticle years ago in a med. journal about cases like this but never imagined the idea could bre used on 'cancer' cells, very interesting.

 

[Ripw4]

Hmm..Would be a cause worth donating too...