Guest guest Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 I hope you're wrong, but we all know the likelihoods. Posted by: " Tony " Mon Jun 11, 2007 9:44 pm ((PDT)) Thanks for the update, Robert, but trust me on this one - DCA is just another red herring in a long, long line of fishy products made by man for the treatment of cancer. First of all it is yet more man made drugs whihc have NEVER worked and which always come with a price and DCA already has known proven side effects. Secondly, I have it on good authority from a leading research scientist at a world famlous cancer facility that the science behind DCA is flawed. After over half a century of failed promises and breakthroughs that never pan out, I have zero faith in man made drugs when it comes to treating cancer and other serious illness. The approach still remains the treatment of symptoms and not the underlying causes. Nature on the other hand, just keeps proving it's track record over and over and over. All the incredible waste of money, failures, hype and hooplah and continued studies when the answers are literally growing right under out feet and noses. oleander soup , robert-blau wrote: From the Official University of Alberta DCA Site <http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/>: Letter from Dr. Evangelos Michelakis June 01, 2007 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Me? Wrong? Actually, I hope I am right. I do not want to see any more mainstream, lab created drugs that treat symptoms. We know they will have side effects. DCA certainly does.Given the nature of the underlying causes of cancer, I think it is virtually impossible to create an actual cure in the lab so I don't want to go there either.And why go there anyway - nature already has plenty.Tonyoleander soup , robert-blau wrote:>> I hope you're wrong, but we all know the likelihoods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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