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Some of your replies make me wonder did you read the OP at all.
Uh... What? We have loads of treatments at the moment. You'll probably die of cancer before every treatment has been tried, there are that many of them. The problem is that they are quite destructive for both normal cells and cancer cells so you get quite ill from using them. Many people with cancer, especially when they got cancer at a relatively young age eventually get experimental medication to try to fight the cancer as a last resort. The main problem is that you need to eradicate every single cancer cell to truely stop the cancer. Since cancer cells and normal cells are relatively similar this causes major damage to normal cells too.
Yes, we have loads of other treatments. This is the best one so far, so why not take it into use. Also, it clearly said "Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone" which basically means no harm is done to other than cancer cells. And even if done, I bet that the cancer patients would rather take the risk than have the cancer for the rest of their lives.
Source? In the university news release there was not a single mentioning of momentarily destruction of cancer, nor any mentioning that it could be used multiple times.
I told you they hide stuff. Again I'll refer to the small part of the blog's post "Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone". Fine, it doesn't say it can be used multiple times, but if it didn't do any harm to normal cells, then nothing prevents it from being used multiple times.
I think you'll find that real humans tend to be quite a bit more complex than just human cells. Cell studies can be helpful, but they can't really fully predict what's going to happen in a real human.
That didn't stop them from giving the swineflu vaccinations to us, and look where it got us. It caused narcolepsy in humans. They knew this, but still they gave it to people to prevent the greater harm. Before this, they didn't care whether the drug did good or harm. They just instantly began using it after testing it on human cells. But not with cancer. You know why? Because that would take too many patients away from them, causing them to not get money.
As I said there are many forms of experimental medication that can be used at the later stages of cancer. This could be one of them. This is why human clinical trials can be started so soon. If it wasn't a last resort measure there would have to be many more animal tests needed before clinical tests on humans could be started.
But we have to be honest with patients, we really don't know if this works any better than other experimental forms of treatment. Just telling a patient you got a miracle cure for cancer when you haven't is just cruel.
Don't you think the cancer patients should at least be able to KNOW about this medicine? I think it should be up to them to decide whether they want to use it or not, not the others who don't have cancer.
Uh... What? We have loads of treatments at the moment. You'll probably die of cancer before every treatment has been tried, there are that many of them. The problem is that they are quite destructive for both normal cells and cancer cells so you get quite ill from using them. Many people with cancer, especially when they got cancer at a relatively young age eventually get experimental medication to try to fight the cancer as a last resort. The main problem is that you need to eradicate every single cancer cell to truely stop the cancer. Since cancer cells and normal cells are relatively similar this causes major damage to normal cells too.
Yes, we have loads of other treatments. This is the best one so far, so why not take it into use. Also, it clearly said "Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone" which basically means no harm is done to other than cancer cells. And even if done, I bet that the cancer patients would rather take the risk than have the cancer for the rest of their lives.
Source? In the university news release there was not a single mentioning of momentarily destruction of cancer, nor any mentioning that it could be used multiple times.
I told you they hide stuff. Again I'll refer to the small part of the blog's post "Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human’s cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone". Fine, it doesn't say it can be used multiple times, but if it didn't do any harm to normal cells, then nothing prevents it from being used multiple times.
I think you'll find that real humans tend to be quite a bit more complex than just human cells. Cell studies can be helpful, but they can't really fully predict what's going to happen in a real human.
That didn't stop them from giving the swineflu vaccinations to us, and look where it got us. It caused narcolepsy in humans. They knew this, but still they gave it to people to prevent the greater harm. Before this, they didn't care whether the drug did good or harm. They just instantly began using it after testing it on human cells. But not with cancer. You know why? Because that would take too many patients away from them, causing them to not get money.
As I said there are many forms of experimental medication that can be used at the later stages of cancer. This could be one of them. This is why human clinical trials can be started so soon. If it wasn't a last resort measure there would have to be many more animal tests needed before clinical tests on humans could be started.
But we have to be honest with patients, we really don't know if this works any better than other experimental forms of treatment. Just telling a patient you got a miracle cure for cancer when you haven't is just cruel.
Don't you think the cancer patients should at least be able to KNOW about this medicine? I think it should be up to them to decide whether they want to use it or not, not the others who don't have cancer.
