More skepticism is warranted than is presented on this page. In my reading of your details of DCA (which features an unqualified “can I get it?”) there is no caution about the dangers inherient in taking an untested drug (long term as well as short term) and no mention of the known side effects (reversible or not).

Your video is purely emotional. Medical treatments should be promoted first by cold science, not heart.

MCC mentions a few positive cases (very few it seems). Cancer does regress on its own, it takes larger trials to be meaningful. It could very well be that DCA does nothing, and those lucky enough to have regressions are counted as false positives.

In presenting an emotional rather than a rational appeal, you could mislead cancer patients from conventional treatments (including the bugbear of chemotheraphy) when it could be their best option. Cancer treatments are not something to be credulous about.

I am not medically qualified, but I believe my skepticism is well founded.

I did not say you are explicitly recommending that, but you are presenting this (to an outside observer, one who may be currently suffering and scared about their future) in a completely positive light. I am suggesting you balance this with a caution to any cancer paitient that might click your links here. DCA is currently not the best option.

I understand it’s not patentable, I understand the reasons for the lack of human trials, and your position that the medical research establishment is broken. This is not justification for the overall picture being presented here, which is: “DCA is a suppressed cancer cure – it works and the medical establishment doesn’t want you to have it!”. You don’t have to explicitly say it for it to be the overall message, regardless of your intention.

I understand you are not trying to be a journalist, as you are actively trying to promote a specific medical treatment, but even advocacy should have the honesty of balance. We who are not medically qualified should be very careful about promoting medical treatments in an unqualified manner, especially ones which are not backed by evidence.

You should add a section on risks inherient with untested drugs (long and short term, the reason why we have large human trials) and the known side effects. A link to a few PubMed articles wouldn’t hurt either. It wouldn’t hurt to mention that chemotheraphy can well be the best life-saving option for some patients given our medical establishment’s experience with it.

New cures come and go. Hope is valuable, but when you may only have a few months to undergo a life-saving treatment time wasted on uncertain treatments can be fatal.

There actually were some human trials done earlier this year with good outcomes. And DCA is an old treatment, it’s been used on people for years, just not for cancer. That’s why it’s not patentable. The patent has run out because it’s so old. It’s considered an “orphan drug”. The only side effect I’ve read about is reversible numbness in fingers and toes. There is a ton of information at http://www.thedcasite.com . My sister has late stage colon cancer and we’re considering using it, along with other treatments.

i have throat cancer and i would love to be a volunteer and i know that chemo and radiation was killing me and i op out and have been taking b-17 instead’ please could you tell me what i have to do to come to canada be a volunteer on clinical trials ! let me tell you chemo and radiation sucks i was on my death bed in just 9 treatments and i op out, because i knew natural death would feal better,cuase chemo and radition don’t have a great track record either. the only thing that makes me upset is that human life don’t have value when it comes to the rich getting richer, and to think of all the children in america that needs a cure and all were worried about is profits- only in america the home of the greedy !

early in 2009 i new about the dca trials that had been under way in canada but nothing was ever done to put this fantastic work out in the media in the US. seems to me the elite are interested more in lining their pockets than getting this out in the media

Would you be able to post links to the interviews you had with those doctors on this forum?

I don’t really know enough yet about DCA to have a well educated opinion on it. However, in my pose, I’ve put up some sites which talk about it

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1168278/
http://www.medicorcancer.com/dca-therapy.html
http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/en/NewsArticles/2010/05/GenericdrugmaybepotentialtreatmentfordeadlybraincancerUofAmedicalstudy.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetic_acid

I agree that the video above is not informative, it is emotive, and for anyone researching treatment options for a loved one, this situation is already emotive and distressing, therefore I struggle to see what you were hoping to achieve with this video. It does not seem productive to me.

I understand that it is frustrating that a drug that shows potential is not attracting funding, but as it costs millions for the pharmaceutical industry to take a drug through trials, if you can’t patent the drug to recoup the costs, where will the funding come from? Perhaps the system is not great, but we can understand precisely why it will not be funded that way, because it cannot be paid for.

However, in the UK there is a research budget within the National Health Service for scenarios such as this, and charities such as Cancer Research UK who sometimes co-fund with Pharmaceutical industry, and sometimes co-fund University (state) led research, and these are the people we need to be targeting.

Questioning the morals of the capitalist pharmaceutical funding scenario, whilst philosophically appropriate, seems, in practical terms, a waste of time. I’m tired of hearing people moaning about big pharma, when their energies could be put to better use lobbying government or raising awareness with charities and the press.

Consequently the petition is a great idea. May I ask how many signatures do you have to date on the UK petition? Do you have a target number of signatures? When and to whom will you be presenting it? You address it to the President, but of course we have a Prime Minister not a President in the UK. I would like to reiterate that the petition is a great idea, but only if it is credible.

We are doing quite an extensive D,C,A research here in Edmonton. you will find a lot informaionby Dr Evangelos michelakis @ capitalhealth.com

HOLA SOY DE MEXICO, TENGO UNA TIA QUE TIENE CANCER, LAMENTABLEMENTE YA NO LE DAN ESPERANZAS, PERO QUISIERA SABER SI ESTE PRODUCTO PODRIA AYUDARLA, ELLA AUN NO QUIERE MORIR.

Hola Soy de Chile, vi que podia tener una luz de esperanza que me ayudara con la enfermedad de mi padre, la cual estoy conciente que no se puede eliminar del todo pero si aliviar sus molestias y darle una mejor calidad de vida, a continuacion le datallo mas o menos su historia:
En el año 2007 comenzo con molestias al orinar, lo cual lo llevo a ver un medico especialista el cual luego de una serie de examenes le diagnostico cancer de prostata ya muy avanzado, por lo cual era necesario operarlo a la brevedad; luego de esto se mantuvo en buenas condiciones fisicas y animicas durante alrededor de dos años, siempre manteniendo los controles y algunos medicamentos. En el año 2010, comenzo con algunas molestias a nivel de la espalda, especificamente en la zona lumbar, se realizo un cintigrama oseo, el cual arrojo como resultado una metastasis osea, debido al cancer que padece; en un principio se realizaron Radioterapias en las zonas mas afectadas, lo cual alivio levemente estas dolencias, pero la enfermedad ha ido avanzando a otras areas de su esqueleto, lo cual hizo necesario nuevamente unas sesiones de radioterapia esta vez a nivel de la zona de la cadera, aun sigue tomando medicamentos para sus dolencias pero ya no estan haciendo el efecto deseado y el dolor se ha ido intensificando. Aun no hemos llegado al uso de la morfina ni tampoco hemos tenido que recurrir a la quimioterapia, afortunadamente.
El en este momento aun puede valerse por si solo, se levanta, pero gran parte del dia se siente decaido y tiene que recostarse par aliviar en parte sus dolores. Por esto mismo, sus ganas de comer han ido disminuyendo y su baja de peso ha sido considerable.
Al leer en su pagina los testimonios de toda las personas que ha ayudado, confio en que Ud podria ser quien me ayude a darle un bienestar.
Mi padre en la actualidad tiene 73 años.
De que manera seria posible que consiguieramos este medicamento, o que costo tendria para nosotros

quisiera saber como entrar a este tratamientoo como puedo hacer para conseguir el DCA ya que no hepodido conseguirlo tengo 31 años y estoy muy interesado en el Dicloroacetato como puedo hacer para entrar al tratamiento

muchas gracias por la respuesta pero como puedo hacer el pedido para que me traten o donde me inscrivo o a que numero me comunico o dime que puedo hacer para contactarlos

Have you tried giving hemp oil or marijuana to patients in order to treat their cancer or any sort of tumors? There have been many reports in the past regarding hemp oil being used to treat skin cancer and also there have been cases of patients with re-occuring cancer using hash oil and hemp oil to treat their illness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cUC8tjoB_0 Is 1 video as an example.

Salut Martin,hi i just call the medicor center in toronto 416-227-0037,they told me that they can’t do the test anymore they dont have the facility???and they gave me a phone number from a doctor in N.Y to be able to get more info???have been on medicor website and they still say that u can have a treatment whit the dca and ur regular chemio,i dont know what to think about it!!!!

my dad just got the result of a bone cancer he’s almost start is first treatment soon,we live in montreal,i can tell you lots of doctor dont really know about the dca…………..or maybe they dont wanna use it???i dont know,of corse i would like to do the best for my dad.

What do you suggest?
thanks for ur help

where can I buy DCA? And TM?
I live in Brazil.

My mothers friend has been living with breast cancer for ten plus years. I told my mother about a few articles I have read and she is very interested in having her friend speak with someone about this. How should she go about attaining and monitoring DCA in the treatment of her cancer? She lives in nj?

Atta boy, Martin. I knew you were sharp.

*Sigh* I couldn’t agree with you more. But, what if someone were to raise the money for the clinical trials and remove the financial challenge the U.N. always labors under that blunts their progress? What if all the U.N had to do was accept the fund and use their authority to oversee the clinical trials to assure they received a scientific result? Eh? Could the U.S. still fix the trial, with all those other nations watching, and acting as checks and balances? They might tell you and me to kiss off, but could they do that with the U.N. and the whole world?
What if the worlds people petitioned the Secretary General under chapter 1, part 3, of the U.N Charter? Give it a look: http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/chapter1.shtml

Hmmmmmm.

On a lighter note, I’ve joined you. Don’t think people don’t listen to you. Because people like you give a damn, you make people like me give a damn too. After my last comment here, I found myself at register.com where I purchased the domains http://www.therealcureforcancer.org, and I picked up the .com too just to keep the neighborhood nice and free of pests. Lol.

Can you see my email that I left on this comment? We should probably talk. I don’t know how to contact you direct, besides this page.