Small Molecule Offers Big Hope, Full story at http://www.physorg.com/news88194392.html

http://www.physorg.com/news88194392.html

Great Work! Unfortunately, Profit motive expedites. It will never see trials!
E.L.Earnhardt

We can't just say," it will never see clinical trials ", I am not oblivious to the discusting practice of drug companies and the political clout they have, but things don't have to be this way. It won't be easy, but this is one time we can just refuse to shut up. Even though the odds are against us, strength is in numbers. Turning a blind eye surely cannot be the answer. Change has ocurred throughout history, but unfortunately we face huge obstacles. Who would have imagined that the people we trust with our treatments for disease are the very people who have no intention of ever "curing us".

An even smaller molecule was voted Molecule of the Year.
This was NO (Nitric Oxide) originally called ERF (Endoplasmic Relaxation Factor) before it's isolation.
Recently approved for use by the FDA, it is invaluable in the treatment of ARDS (Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome) and even more effective in the treatment of 'blue baby' syndrome.
Nitric Oxide, although a toxic gas, is used in small concentrations (~35ppm) and causes capillaries, especially in the alveoli to dilate, improving Oxygen diffusion and transport.

"the DCA compound is not patented and not owned by any pharmaceutical company, and, therefore, would likely be an inexpensive drug to administer"
--those greedy eeevil corps...riight?...but wait...

"it may be difficult to find funding from private investors to test DCA in clinical trials."
--private investors are bad too, i mean, who would want to cure cancer right?...who will save us...

"He is grateful for the support he has already received from publicly funded agencies"..."and he is hopeful such support will continue and..."
--ahhh 'publicly funded'...the bloated tax-wasting govt...

So instead of efficient companies getting this to market via investment/return(BAD?), we have to wait for unionized bureaucrats to waste twice as much money/time for hopefully the same result(GOOD?)

I haven't seen a better argument for more patents in a long time.

...but yeah..keep 'fighting the man', there people

May we pray it doesn't take a desperate powerful politician with a dying child to make a meaningful change......

Please do not forget there are very rich people who are serious about doing the right thing, like Bill Gates for example.
Let us start a worldwide campaign to make these "extremely rich converted to patrons" compete for being the best helpers, against "a LOT of poorer people giving a small sum each".
The internet is a fine vehicle to get this started. It is time for an uncapitalistic (free of money profit), purely social profit advancement for the human kind. Human kind needs this kind of own personality.
Maybe THIS is the real reason what the rich got so rich for. Giving some big amount of their money for this will NOT make them poor. It will make them SO rich in their hearts.
After all, money is only as good as the use it is given, it lacks "good by definition". I trust time HAS come.

I fear that we may not see the benefits of this in our lifetimes. Can you imagine the economic catastrophe that would result of cancer research being shut down tomorrow? No more chemo or radiation or surgery... Unfortunately, the medical industry is not really that interested in CURING anybody. There is no money in that. Would it not be ironic if it was the insurance industry that brought this one to fruition?

Personally, I am very excited about this DCA substance/discovery. I am sure someone will take up the banner soon and do an expedited clinical trial to get this thing off the shelf and to the bedside of many cancer patients who are now dieing due to the lack of any effective cancer treatments. Chemo's are mostly poisons that don't work most of the time, and we haven't yet developed good vaccines.

Maybe some organization that is cure-motivated and not pharmaceutical money-motivated will champion the research. Dana Farber Cancer Institute? Md Anderson Cancer Center in Texas?

Somebody-----------HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!

All we can do is wait for an institution whose strings aren't pulled or controlled by the giant pharmaceuticals to step out of the block and initiate a clinical trial that will quickly establish safe dose levels and efficacy. Dana Farber Cancer Institute/John Wayne Cancer Center/MD Anderson Cancer Center/NIH/NCI ???

There are organisations like Cancer Research UK (a charity which does a lot of good work against cancer and has helped in a number of cures) who would use the info for the public good. The best thing is to release the information to a number of companies and let them all work on it.

It is said that cancer affects 1 in 3 people sometime in their life.