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Originally Posted by Ashartus
I don't know about the "no one noticed" bit - that story was all over the news when it was released. But the spin in that article is ludicrous and it was clearly written by someone with no scientific/medical knowledge, let alone understanding of cancer.
DCA shows a small amount of promise for treatment of a couple of specific types of cancer - it certainly isn't a "cure all cancer" drug (and I highly doubt anything ever will be - cancer is not one disease). There is also ongoing study of it.
The medical industry would not/could not suppress a cure if such a thing existed - even if you buy the argument that the industry makes too much money from treatment, the individual researchers are a different story, and anyone who could come up with a real cure for all types of cancer would be fabulously wealthy, famous, and almost certainly win the Nobel. A lot of cancer research is also not done by private industry, but by universities and government-funded researchers.
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Yet how many times have we heard something like this come over the news? They had the same thing come out of the UWO once too and it disappeared. We heard they had a vaccine for HIV as well but you can't get it. If you catch HIV they can treat it so you can live an almost full lifespan providing you take the medication for your lifetime. Big bucks there. Coming up with a cure is one thing, getting it released to the public is a whole new ball game.