One of the more interesting magazines on my rack is called the New Scientist… and leave it to them to have some of the most current and interesting articles out there. I had searched everywhere and finally found the famed video of the ‘prehistoric’ ancient ‘frill shark’ caught alive off Japan on a site in New Zealand… but all I really needed to do was go to newScientist.com.
However, another diddy caught my attention… the title of this New Scientist article was “Cheap , Safe drug kills most cancers”. If the title of the article doesn’t grab you… the first few words of the article will….
“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.”
ScienceDaily from which I have linked the picture of the DCA molecule has an interesting take on the issue.
Shands Hospital at the University of Florida has looked at using DCA in other metabolic disorders.
Congratulations to all who have found this promising drug… forgive me for being a little ‘corny’… but you are heroes to many…. because you bring hope … and just maybe… a cure.
Roger Freberg