The Potential Cure For Cancer
February 8, 2012
Filed under News
There’s a miracle in Canada called Dichloroacetic acid or DCA. Thanks to a group of scientist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, the dichloroacetic acid is use to cure cancer. The acid is a small molecule acetic acid with two cholrines. It turns on mitochondria of cancer cells and causes them to commit cellular suicide or in other words apoptosis.
The mitochondria was there all along but doctors relied on the gylcolysis method to fight cancer. They believed that all of the mitochondria were damaged, therefore leaving them helpless against the cancer cells. The truth is that the mitochondria cells were not turned on. With the mitochondria cells triggered, they produce less lactic acid. With less lactic acid, the bad tissue around the cancer cells do not break down and seed new tumors.
Current cancer treatments, like chemotherapy, can harm the patient. If there’s a cure to help cancer recipients, why are the major pharmaceutical companies blowing it off like it’s no big deal? The thing is that the DCA drug cannot be patented therefore the companies would not be making any profit off of the drug. Without a patent, major companies will not invest in the drug. The question is which is more important to them and which should be more important.
Sophomore Josh Grubb says ” Wouldn’t it be more profitable for them to help people. They shouldn’t be worried about money so much”.
The reality of it is that the process costs more than $1 billion for potential treatments and medications to pass through stages on the way from a research lab to the pharmacies shelf. So is it that they can’t afford it or they don’t want to afford it? ” They need to think about saving people’s life’s instead of the dollar. Give cancer recipients a chance.” Says study hall teacher Mrs. Johnson who is a cancer survivor herself.
Scientists are hoping for some small companies to grab the idea and produce the drug because of the major companies are not interested. Some believe that DCA is just a ‘potential treatment’. That maybe why there is not as much interest on the subject. To good to be true is what some people say.
