Has anybody heard of the unpatented drug DCA? I heard of it through Paul Harvey on the radio. The initals stand for dichloroacetate. I found the link on www.newescientist.com and it seems so simple on how it works. It attacks the glycolysis of the cancer cell forcing it back to mitochondria in which they wither and die. From what I get out of this is it is all in the way cancer gets it sugar. It is used to treat rare metobolic disorders and is relatively safe. How would one get something like this into a clinical study? Sounds pretty good to me. Bill B

Bill, I think the red flag here is "unpatented"
I did a search on DCA; it does seem to "kill" cancer cells. So does vitamin C, and capscicum( the heat in hot peppers). Both of those have the same claim, yet neither is used in cancer treatment.

There isn't much likelyhood that someone will pick it up and start any sort of significant study. The cancer research dollars are spread pretty thin, and this is the sort of thing that is not likely to see much main stream funding.

If it worked as described, I would agree; it sounds good. Almost too good to be true. That's usually the grind; they forget to mention all of the "less than encouraging" results.

just my opinion
Wayne

I read something (on the internet, of course, so don't take it to heart) that pomegranate's and pomegranate juice can help to prevent prostate/breast cancer or something like that.

And there is this Brandt diet where you fast for 12 hours and just drinking water, and then you eat grapes (slowly) for another 12 hours, and it goes on like this for 6 weeks. And what the water does is it starves the cancer cells of nutrients, and when you eat the grapes there are certain nutrients in it so it kills the cancer. Probably not true. But myths are pretty cool.

no "probably" about it; dangerously untrue. There are so many "myths" around...some of them are so silly they're humerous. Others....well, they're offensive.

You just KNOW that there will be some poor soul, desparately searching for the "miracle cure" who falls hook, line and sinker for some of this stuff, and shuns conventional treatments.

The end result is usually an obituary. When I was first diagnosed, I had a bunch of people tell me about this "cure" or that one, and how it was much easier than surgery and radiation. What none of them really understood is that their "cures" didn't work. I'm sticking with what I can research, treatments with medically PROVEN success rates. I'm here today because of modern medicine, not alternative cures
Wayne

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