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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10971

Canada finds a better way to deal with cancer than making people bald? Can /sci/ give an opinion?

>> No.1141293

better than being bald??? fuck your pretentious shit

>> No.1141296

>>1141275
>>December 2007

>> No.1141307

>>1141296
america is doing their best to cover it up.

>> No.1141332

Canadian here.
What, you guys didn't know about it?
Cancer is pretty much nonexistant over here.

>> No.1141337

>>1141332
ey?

>> No.1141339

>>1141337
i think you mean eh.

>> No.1141363

...
my best friend's father in canada was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2008. He was wealthy as fuck and all they gave him was fucking radio treatment.

explain this horseshit canada.

>> No.1141371

>>1141363
Free health-care cares not how much money you have

>> No.1141382

>>1141363
Horseshit?

>> No.1141400

The fuck.

I attend the UofA.

>> No.1141406

>>1141371

Exactly, you get state of the art, american quality treatment no matter what.

>> No.1141422

I went to a lecture describing a method of chemo using false lipoates to trigger a suicide sequence of cancer cells without affecting healthy cells. Results were incredible, but I hadn't heard about it until this lecture of like three locals and a high school bio class.

>> No.1141437

>>1141371
then why didn't he get this cheap ass treatment?

>> No.1141454

>>1141437
It's an anecdote, how about you tell us? I know from my experience, when my mother was treated for a glioblastoma she received great care, both radio and chemo.

>> No.1141465

>>1141400
me too brah

>> No.1141480

"After extracting glioblastomas from 49 patients over a two-year period, and studying them within minutes of removal in the operating room, the team verified that the tumours responded to DCA by changing their metabolism.

The researchers then treated five patients with advanced glioblastoma. They obtained tumour tissues before and after DCA therapy. After comparing the two samples, they confirmed DCA worked in the same manner as they had predicted in their earlier test-tube experiments. "

http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/en/NewsArticles/2010/05/Genericdrugmaybepotentialtreatmentfordead
lybraincancerUofAmedicalstudy.aspx

Also they are still testing DCA and found it to be quite successful in treating brain tumors.

>> No.1141494

>>1141480
I wish DCA was approved for use, it could have helped in my situation(>>1141437).

>> No.1141589

>>1141494
Still, they DEFINITELY still have to make sure the drug doesn't have any nasty side effects, making sure that all the cancer cells are destroyed, received vast amounts of scrutiny and criticisms and coduct larger clinical trials, before they even submit DCA to Canada's drug dept.

>> No.1141792

>>1141589

Well DCA in cancer patients may be different from someone else but it's been used extensively in people with metabolic disorders so we have a pretty good idea of the side effects. The main problem is the fact that there's no patent and so no drug companies want to put any money into it... fair enough. That's why the first clinical trial was increadibly limited in scope and therefore everyone's time has been immensely wasted. Three years and only 3 patients tested, what a fuck up.

>> No.1141795

>>1141589
it's already used to treat something else..

too lazy to find quote

>> No.1142574

>>1141795

Apparently too lazy to read the fucking thread...