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Not sure how people could possibly see perceive the article you linked to as a cure for cancer. What it mentions are 'treatment of cancer' and 'regression of many cancers'. It merely writes about cancer treatment, not about a cancer cure. Those two are very different things in fighting cancer. And there is definitely nowhere any mentioning of researchers having cured cancer anywhere on that page. This DCA is not a cure for cancer, just a potential extra aid in fighting cancer.
But your point about pharmaceutical companies having no interest for it is valid. Pharmaceutical companies will only invest in something that brings in money, and DCA doesn't really seem to have that potential. This is a problem for many classes of drugs, especially when they are only administered a single time. (Antibiotics for example are hardly being developed anymore.) The problem is just that it is really costly to develop and test a medicine (around 100 million dollar is what I heard).
And really, universities won't have that kind of money ready either. The only way for such drugs to be developed is with government subsidies. And that takes a long time. It isn't really bad will but companies just have to make money, that's what they do. Otherwise they just go belly up, which doesn't cure anyone either.
EDIT: This article wants to raise awareness for this study, hope some independent companies and small startup will pick up this idea and produce these drugs, because the big companies won’t touch it for a long time.
That might be the problem people aren't understanding right there. You can't just start producing drugs. You need to develop them first, unless you feel like another Thalidomide drama...
But your point about pharmaceutical companies having no interest for it is valid. Pharmaceutical companies will only invest in something that brings in money, and DCA doesn't really seem to have that potential. This is a problem for many classes of drugs, especially when they are only administered a single time. (Antibiotics for example are hardly being developed anymore.) The problem is just that it is really costly to develop and test a medicine (around 100 million dollar is what I heard).
And really, universities won't have that kind of money ready either. The only way for such drugs to be developed is with government subsidies. And that takes a long time. It isn't really bad will but companies just have to make money, that's what they do. Otherwise they just go belly up, which doesn't cure anyone either.
EDIT: This article wants to raise awareness for this study, hope some independent companies and small startup will pick up this idea and produce these drugs, because the big companies won’t touch it for a long time.
That might be the problem people aren't understanding right there. You can't just start producing drugs. You need to develop them first, unless you feel like another Thalidomide drama...
