DCA as a possible "universal cure" for cancer

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New Scientist, a European publication, reported in its January 20, 2007 issue that a "cheap, safe drug kills most cancers". The drug is DCA, or dichloroacetate, and has been used medically to treat rare metabolic disorders. Rat tumours grown from rat cells deliberately infected with human breast, brain and lung cancer shrank drastically when fed water laced with DCA. n addition, mThe drug works by reawakening mitochondria which in normal cells provide energy, and shutting down the glycolysis that goes on in the main body of cancer cells. It was also noted that DCA also prevented metastases

It is noted in a letter to the editor that DCA is in itself a known carcinogen, however studies rats subjected to DCA at high concentrations.

The article can be found at

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn10971-cheap-safe-drug-kills-most-cancers.html