This kinda thing is a hot spot for me, so after Tagon posted it I knew I had to blog about it.
Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.
Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.
This drug doesn’t require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.
Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It was tested on Rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the technique is easy to use, why the major drug companies are not involved? Or the Media interested in this find?
I'll tell you why: GREED. Why cure something that is a multi-billion dollar industry? We've been working towards a cure for cancer, AIDS, MS, MD, and a laundy list of terrible diseases in some cases for over 50 YEARS now. You know what the last major disease was that we actually "cured"....POLIO...over 50 years ago. Since then we've claimed we are looking to cure alot of things, with celebrities raising millions of dollars in telethons and concerts and all sorts of revenue streams, but we just end up finding drugs to "manage" or "alleviate" the conditions.
Lets think about cancer, and just limit the research on that to the last 50-60 years. We've put men on the moon, shrank computers from the size of a large building to something you can carry in your pocket, we've split the atom, we've made scientific advancements that only a science fiction writer could have dreamed about...yet we can't cure cancer? With the millions of dollars thrown into research on that disease...what do we have to show for it?
We have pills. Pills to make you happy, make you sad, make you have better sex...and plenty of pills to "manage" every disease or condition under the sun...but nothing that acutally cures anything.
It makes me sick...and the only cure will never happen because too many people make too much money off of not curing things.
Though I'm sure there is a pill somewhere to manage my condition...
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