DCA: Letter from Dr. Evangelos Michelakis
June 9th, 2007I’m making a contribution to the University of Alberta to help this research along in a small way. The diabolical pharmaceutical industry will oppose this to the extent possible. It’s up to us to make it happen.
Establishment science could accomplish good things if it wasn’t serving evil most of the time. Let’s help these guys understand more about DCA and how to use it properly. The substance is out there, the pharmaceutical companies can’t make it go away, but we need to know more.
Via: University of Alberta:
Dear Friends,
We continue to be moved by your sustained interest and support of our efforts. We have been working tirelessly over the past several months to bring this research from the laboratory to the level of a clinical trial. This is a very challenging endeavor since it is not supported by the pharmaceutical industry. The process of bringing a drug from animal research to clinical trial takes a few years. However over the past 3 months, we have made significant progress towards achieving our goals. We have received help and input from stakeholders, medical and otherwise, and have received input from our health care partners in Alberta to ensure a clinical trial that can address both efficacy and safety of this potential treatment. We have significantly revised and improved our original protocol for Health Canada’s consideration. We would like to remind you that despite the fact that dichloroacetate has been used in humans for over 20 years the appropriate dose for cancer patients remains unknown. There are several unique features of a cancer patient, from body metabolism to a number of unique drugs that only cancer patients are exposed to, that do not allow extrapolations from other conditions. Therefore, extra caution has to be exercised regarding the strategy to identify an optimal dose.
More importantly, we would like to remind you that this work, at least at its early stages, will not be able to be completed without your ongoing support.
Finally, we are very pleased to see that a number of key findings in scientific literature have surfaced over the past six months and appear to support a proposed theory and the potential effectiveness of dichloroacetate or similar drugs as effective therapies for cancer. Prestigious institutions and journals are now putting our work in context with these new developments and have expressed guarded optimism for these efforts. Such a review was recently published at the prestigious journal “Science†with a title “Metabolic Targeting as an Anti-cancer Strategy; Dawn of a New Era?†A copy of this paper can be found in the media section of our website.
Sincerely yours,
Evangelos D. Michelakis, MD, FACC, FAHA
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
Canada Research Chair in Pulmonary Hypertension
Kevin
I disappointed to see you’re buying into the idea that cance can be overcome with some kind of pill or potion, even if it is not being researched by big pharma. There plenty of life enhancing ways to deal with cancer without becoming a victim twice over & without taking a financial hit as well.
Take heart, this is but one small blemish on an otherwise supurb servive you offer.
@ Colley Dog
I cured my own skin cancer (three different outbreaks) with black salve (blood root paste). Are you saying that I didn’t do that?
What other idiotic insights do you have for us?
I really wonder about the value of open comments… Sometimes interesting information comes in. Sometimes it’s ratpoison. There’s always someone out there who needs to showcase their own ignorance or spread lies.
I lost my mother and sister to cancer so I have a very personal take on this issue. After seeing how “modern” medicine killed them through chemo”therapy” and the bone crushing debt it put my sister into, I have no sympathy for big-pharma in particular or the medical establishment in general.
Its an industry that feeds off the misery of others while holding out a perpetual carrot stick with the thin hope that “someday” things will get better but, of course, not until bleeding everyone for as much as they can get.
These vampires don’t want anyone to know about anything unless its been somehow shat out of their expensively patented ass. Then its to be proclaimed as some sort of new manna from heaven until people drop like flies due to complications and then its quickly hushed off the stage to be replaced by the “new and improved” whatever miracle drug for today.
Never mind that the FDA “approved” this crap while deliberately stonewalling, and in effect killing off possible cures, because it “cares”. Thats government for you… they’ll steal from you in the form of taxes in order to make sure you die in a prescribed manner. How kind of them.
wow Colley, exactly what are the “plenty of life enhancing ways to deal with cancer without becoming a victim twice over & without taking a financial hit as well.” ??? Say what, Roll Over and Die?
Yes open comments – Dr. Fix – I am in sympatico with you. One of my sister’s died from mesothelioma in 1983- inhalation of asbestos – fer crying out loud ( she died at age 33 and the doctors said she had to have inhaled asbestos at the age of 6 to have such advanced disease), and there is still no cure. My father died from Non-Hodgkins (sp) lymphoma, along with his broken heart. Too much loss in his life for him to bear. These cancer deaths in my family are from environmental influences. There are no cures for them, very little research I believe. Mesothelioma has been around since the slaves in Africa mined this crap and dropped dead several weeks after spending time in the mines. But no worry, asbestos is an excellent flame retardant. Sheesh, using this excellent flame retardant has cost so many lives, and litigation will be ongoing to kingdom come, Dick Cheney’s will be done. Oh yes, Dick as CEO of Halliburton bought Dresser Industries.Dick’s contracts in Iraq have saved Halliburton from bankruptcy deluxe over asbestos. But I digress.
Colley Dog, nothing in this post reads “magic potion” cure from cancer. There is no magic potion. The venture in this post asks for support, which by the way, unless you are Big Pharma, or anything else BIG doesn’t need anything from us pimples. The BIGS already have all the money they need, and can spend 34% per cent or more of the money they make, read billions, on the worthless, expensive drugs they sell in the U.S. on TV commercials to sell more drugs for freakin INVENTED diseases. Side effects: oh well, your dick will fall off if you take viagra, or you might pass out and have unquenchable thirst or black bloody stools if take this drug to keep yourself from having a too frequent urge to pee. What a freakin joke! The supposed remedy is worse than …well what? An invented disease? Cure? Turn off the freakin television. You won’t learn about a disease you have no idea you “might have” if the suggestion isn’t put into your brain.
Cancer is the big boogey man word. And I for one think that if you don’t look beyond the traditional chemo and radiation you don’t really value your life. And what “financial hit” is your life worth?
I for one love to read Cryptogon posts re food, diet,and health. The cutting edge if you ask me.
And wow Kevin, I never have heard of black root paste. Congratulations and many on doing research to cure yourself.
Re: Black salve / blood root paste: I used it, and it worked, but I don’t recommend it to people unless they can use it under the care of a sympathetic doctor. It can be an extremely harsh, painful and terrifying treatment, or it can go pretty easily. I’ve personally experienced it both ways.
Of course, now, when you type black salve into Google, the number one result is some shill page called quackwatch:
The MD on there says:
That is such an obscene lie that it’s unbelievable that the idiot can look at himself in the mirror.
A dermatologist told me I would need re constructive surgery on my nose once they removed the cancer. I have two barely visible scars that resulted from my use of black salve. Was I lucky? Yeah. There could have been much more cancer, and yeah, the black salve would have just kept going.
Put black salve on non cancerous tissue and guess what happens!?
NOTHING.
That’s the first thing I did. How did I know this stuff wouldn’t just burn a hole through any skin it touched?
Well, I tried it! I put some on the soft area of skin under my left arm (triceps). Nothing happened. I put it on a different mole. Nothing happened. When I put it on the suspect mole, oh man, it hurt almost immediately and it was off to the races.
When you see the shills saying that this just eats health skin away, that’s bullcrap.
The problem is that, sometimes, there is much more to the skin cancer than what’s apparent on the surface. The black salve will go after all of it. It doesn’t stop. I used it on my nose and on my shoulder and it wasn’t too bad. It left smooth, pink, bloodless wounds that scarred over and are now barely visible.
But—and this is why I don’t recommend it to people—when I put it on a mole on my right arm, I eventually wound up with an open wound about the size of a silver dollar, with an ejected mass about the size of a quarter and maybe 1/4 of an inch thick.
I only had over the counter pain relief. I nearly passed out from the pain/shock. I tried to get pain relief help from a family member—who was a medical doctor. She couldn’t prescribe any pain relief meds to me. She said she could lose her license.
So, yes, it works. But it can be VERY rough.
Black salve sounding too scary? Sunspot ES is a VERY interesting product. Enough said.