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Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers - health - 17 January 2007 - New Scientist
Topic: Medicine 2:13 pm EST, Jan 17, 2007

It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.

It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.

Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, and his colleagues tested DCA on human cells cultured outside the body and found that it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells, but not healthy cells. Tumours in rats deliberately infected with human cancer also shrank drastically when they were fed DCA-laced water for several weeks.

So when do the human tests begin?

--timball

Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers - health - 17 January 2007 - New Scientist



 
 
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