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.
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Not everyone wants to go gently into that good night Kevin. In fact they would be stupid to. Our health care “professionals” government, sit by while 500,000 Americans are sent home to die, every year. Cancer fools have FAILED utterly in the war on cancer started by Nixon. The initial advocacy that cancer was fetus like in nature, using the same tools and tricks as a fetus, was first put forth 80 or so years ago. Why has it been ignored ever since. No chemotherapy can be taken long enough to kill cancer stem cells, not yet. What do you want people to do,, keep on going home and dying without trying something new? Passing up a chance to live is better than going home to die , sitting in a chair doing nothing. Fight Fight FIGHT, against the dying of the light!
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