Industry Wouldn’t Fund Cancer Drug Research, So Alberta Town Rode to the Rescue
October 5th, 2007Via: CBC News:
Even though the drug shrinks cancerous tumours, no pharmaceutical companies wanted to fund human trials because they couldn’t make enough money selling it. And that’s when Peace River stepped in.
To date, the town in northwestern Alberta has collected $250,000 — a large chunk of the $800,000 in grants and donations generated worldwide to fund the clinical trial of dichloroacetate, or DCA.
DCA has been in use for decades. But it has recently been shown to fight cancer by attacking the metabolism of malignant tumours in studies on rats.
In January 2007, the academic journal Cancer Cell published a University of Alberta doctor’s findings that showed the compound shrinks tumours without damaging healthy cells. But because the drug sells for so little, at $2 a dose, no drug company was willing to support human trials and DCA’s patent expired.
So people in Peace River began their fundraising campaign.
Here’s a good dedicated website on DCA. Note on the home page that the FDA goons have already started closing down easy access to DCA — can’t have a potential cheap cancer cure cutting into Big Pharma’s profits, eh?
http://www.thedcasite.com/
The gubmint will protect you from cancer cures just as rabidly as it protects you from mothers like Carol Gotbaum, who cry for help and scream that they aren’t terrorists as the TSA thugs dispatch them.
Great! Thanks, Pookie.