A definitive compendium of articles by Orac about how this promising approach to cancer is being hijacked and taken advantage of:

In any case, I remain of the mind that hypesters like Jim Tassano, although he seems to think that he’s doing good, are in fact not only putting patients at risk, but putting the very clinical trials necessary to demonstrate the utility of DCA against cancer at risk. Thanks to Jim Tassano, idiots like DaveScot egging him on, and the general Kevin Trudeau-style “cure for cancer that ‘they’ don’t want you to know about” blogospheric meltdown, the taint of quackery has descended upon a new chemotherapeutic drug (and, indeed, a new overall approach to treating cancer in general) that is promising and the study of which could utimately yield a whole new class of anticancer drugs.