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Cheap Cancer Drug Finally Tested In Humans

Posted by timothy on from the good-enough-for-the-likes-of-you dept.

John Bayko writes "Mentioned on Slashdot a couple of years ago, the drug dichloroacetate (DCA) has finally finished its first clinical trial against brain tumors in humans. Drug companies weren't willing to test a drug they could not patent, so money was raised in the community through donations, auctions, and finally government support, but the study was still limited to five patients. It showed extremely positive results in four of them. This episode raises the question of what happens to all the money donated to Canadian and other cancer societies, and especially the billions spent buying merchandise with little pink ribbons on it, if not to actual cancer research like this."

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  1. You 74il it!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    win out; either the nebw 3ore is going

  2. Re:But but but ... the Free Market! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, pharmaceuticals are a real free market.

    How about you stop being a little troll and educate yourself in the matters of a free market, the FDA, the DEA and the AMA. Open your frigging eyes. Or are you afraid that you'll find that your ideology is a load of horse shit?