Cancer has been defeated (and cheaply, to boot!)

[skunkworks]

Well, one way to see whether this treatment might be feasible is to see what the incidence of cancer mortality in patients who are treated with DCA and compare that to the normal average, correct?

[Morrek]

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Hmm, yesterday i was being a cynic and ranting to my dad about how they'll never 'cure' cancer.

BOY DO I FEEL STUPID.

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haha


op: awesome.

[cking]

This looks pretty sweet

[Daddy Warbucks]

If this article was published 3 weeks ago, why hasn't any major news outlet picked it up?

[GrandmaStabone]

Conspiracy duh!

[onthebutton]

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Well, one way to see whether this treatment might be feasible is to see what the incidence of cancer mortality in patients who are treated with DCA and compare that to the normal average, correct?

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This is a quote from the Cancer Cell paper discussed in the OP:

"The very recent report of the first randomized long-term clinical trial of oral DCA in children with congenital lactic acidosis (at doses similar to those used in our in vivo experiments) showing that DCA was well tolerated and safe (Stacpoole et al., 2006) suggests a potentially easy translation of our work to clinical oncology."

I'm not sure if data about cancer would be collected in a clinical trial centered on lactic acidosis, or if they would be allowed to collect this data (clinical trial rules are super-strict, and kind of funny sometimes about stuff like this). Data set may not be large enough either.

As far as going back to all patients that were prescribed DCA and checking for cancer mortality, I'm sure that someone is working on it.

[T-God]

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If this article was published 3 weeks ago, why hasn't any major news outlet picked it up?

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Because that astronaut lady went crazy

[CrazyEyez]

gg cancer

[leehrat]

MSNBC picked it up

there's no money in it for the pharm companies, that's probably part of the problem.

[dknightx]

response from american cancer society:

http://www.cancer.org/aspx/blog/Comments.aspx?id=130