I read this from the following link:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070116/cancer_dca_070116/20070116/


If this is true, then I am concerned about their real concern about finding a cure for cancer.

I found this blog on another website:

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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.
DCA attacks a unique feature of cancer cells: the fact
that they make their energy throughout the main body
of the cell, rather than in distinct organelles called
mitochondria. This process, called glycolysis, is
inefficient and uses up vast amounts of sugar.
Until now it had been assumed that cancer cells used
glycolysis because their mitochondria were irreparably
damaged. However, Michelakis’s experiments prove this
is not the case, because DCA reawakened the
mitochondria in cancer cells. The cells then withered
and died (Cancer Cell, DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2006.10.020).
Michelakis suggests that the switch to glycolysis as
an energy source occurs when cells in the middle of an
abnormal but benign lump don’t get enough oxygen for
their mitochondria to work properly (see diagram). In
order to survive, they switch off their mitochondria
and start producing energy through glycolysis.
Crucially, though, mitochondria do another job in
cells: they activate apoptosis, the process by which
abnormal cells self-destruct. When cells switch
mitochondria off, they become “immortal”, outliving
other cells in the tumour and so becoming dominant.
Once reawakened by DCA, mitochondria reactivate
apoptosis and order the abnormal cells to die.
“The results are intriguing because they point to a
critical role that mitochondria play:
they impart a unique trait to cancer cells that can be
exploited for cancer therapy,” says Dario Altieri,
director of the University of Massachusetts Cancer
Center in Worcester.
The phenomenon might also explain how secondary
cancers form. Glycolysis generates lactic acid, which
can break down the collagen matrix holding cells
together. This means abnormal cells can be released
and float to other parts of the body, where they seed
new tumours.
DCA can cause pain, numbness and gait disturbances in
some patients, but this may be a price worth paying if
it turns out to be effective against all cancers.
The next step is to run clinical trials of DCA in people
with cancer. These may have to be funded by charities,
universities and governments: pharmaceutical companies
are unlikely to pay because they can’t make money on
unpatented medicines. The pay-off is that if DCA does work, it
will be easy to manufacture and dirt cheap.
Paul Clarke, a cancer cell biologist at the University
of Dundee in the UK, says the findings challenge the
current assumption that mutations, not metabolism,
spark off cancers. “The question is: which comes
first?” he says.

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This really bothers me in the sense that I personally know a person who will soon die of cancer, if she doesn't receive this drug. They took her off chemotherapy as it will no longer help her in this final stage of her cancer.

All this harmful chemotherapy that she went under, when there seems to be a common and cheap drug available that could very well save her life. The sad thing about this is that this is a drug that has been around and used for other medical problems.

This might be worth checking out on the published articles directly...

How would you do that?

It is possible that the Uni has a subscription on the appropriate papers.

As this is a commonly used substance, does anybody know where it can be obtained in Canada?

I think I would approach my physician about this, and ask to be switched to DCA (dichloroacetate) for treatment.
Its worth a shot, speak to a pharmacist as well to ask if they carry this item, there may also be a generic name for it dichloroacetate is the generic name.
Worth looking into, especially considering the nature of the person you know Daryl. Do this ASAP!!
God Bless,
Will

Well I was looking for a place to post relating to Barbara Kerr's treatment and you must have brought this forum up while I was posting it under:

What Do You Know About Naturalpath Doctors? The Contradiction.

Sorry, sometimes there are subjects that I don't find an appropriate forum topic for.

Some topics are related, therefore, it really doesn't matter where you post it.

It could have also been posted as a new topic.

The problem with DCA is that this is a chemical. It may kill cancer cells, but it has side effects. This is still on an experimental stage, and is not used on human patients yet, as far as I can see.

Just a little while ago I spoke to Dr. Arild Abrahamsen’s brother who has had cancer and been treated now with a natural remedy, the same as Barbara Kerr. He is still careful, but works now two days a week as a physical therapist. It was his son who read about the enzyme that could cure cancer, in a newspaper report.

I understand that Dr. Arild Abrahamsen managed to get hold of the enzyme from a lab in England. He does not treat the patients with this enzyme, but managed to read the values of it coding them into his test apparatus. With those values he is able to discover the values of latent enzymes in each patient, and thereby discover what combination of vitamins and minerals it takes to activate the latent enzymes and make them work on the cancer cells to kill themselves. Then he injects the exact amount and combination of vitamins and minerals into the body through IV through some days or weeks. The cancer has then apparantly disappeared after 6-21 treatments, depending on how much cancer there is in the body.

Arild tells me he is convinced the Creator has embedded such enzymes in the human system from the beginning. He thinks people before the flood knew how to follow the original diet giving them the right combination which kept these enzymes active to combat disease and made it possible for man to live several hundred years.

Could it be that God in his mercy reveals to His people some of these long lost secrets of the influence of the right diet to combat sickness? Arild is now checking scientifically which diet combinations contain healing powers. I understand that due to various ailments found in humans today there is no universal diet as such, but it has to be adapted to the needs of each individual.

The sad thing about all of this is the expense involved in receiving these more natural forms of treatment resulting in the eventual death from cancer of those woh can't afford such treatment.

The alternative for these types of people is the inexpensive and common chemical discovered by this Canadian cancer researcher. The problem is that the drug companies will probably not be interested as there will not be any profit made from such an expensive common unpatented chemical/drug.

I know of one person who is in the final stages of terminal cancer, which, unless a miracle of some sort takes place, will eventually result in the death of this person.

And how is that done?

Either by clicking on Topic Options at the top of a topic when you are looking at a topic, and then selecting New Topic, or by selecting New Topic at the top when looking at a list of topics.

Thank you Daryl,

I'll have to see if I can do that when I come up with a new topic.

Daryl, Don't you have a government subsidized health program in Canada? Is that why you mention the "expense involved in receiving these more natural forms of treatment". The government programs won't pay for the alternative or natural treatments?

Thanks Johann, I had wondered if there was any connection with the dichloroacetate(DCA) and Barbara Kerr's treatment. Your post answered that question.


I do know of some "natural cures" that encourage getting the needed enzymes from raw food and juices. I do think the Creator will use those physicians that seek to use his methods of healing.

The Canadian Federal/Provincial government health program doesn't cover alternative or natural treatments.

In Denmark there is a renowned physician who is even a member of the government board of health, who uses vitamins to curb cancer. He has sent some of his patients to Dr. Arild Abrahamsen, and so have a number of doctors in Norway.

It is interesting to note that out of 10 medical doctors in Norway who get cancer themselves, 8 will not use the traditional methods with chemicals and radiation which they have used on their own patients because the system requires it, but they will turn to alternative treatments.

Dr. Lorraine Day in the USA had breast cancer and cured herself the natural way.

You can read more about it at http://www.drday.com

My husband has a client who is a physician. His wife had cancer and she went several times to South America for some type of treatment. I think it extended her life some, but unfortunately in the end it didn't work.

I think that would be my concern, in a government health program in the U. S.

Yes, and then she believed she could cure everybody else's cancer the same way - and she failed i some important cases, like Danny Shelton's mother.

You are referring to Dr. Loraine Day?

Here is a link to where this can be purchased as an experimental drug that can be used on pets that have cancer:

http://www.buydca.com/?gclid=CN3t8Yz454oCFR3VgAodYgIokg

There's lots of information on this site related to the news item at the beginning of this topic.

It seems that they are on top of things in immediately providing this to animals that have cancer.

Here is more information:


Part of the above quote was taken from the following link:

http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/

Here is a letter from the doctor:


This is at the following link:

http://www.depmed.ualberta.ca/dca/letter_031507.htm

Here is another interesting link about this:

http://www.thedcasite.com/

Has anyone here tried her products, any successes?
God bless,
Daryl N