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Re: Dichloroacetate (DCA) causes regression in several cancers
There is information out there and has been used in Canada referenced by some facility and doctor for various attempts on cancers in general. Has some interest no doubt, no patents, no money, cheap...already drug companies would hate it (LOL). Just like they hate DES, no money, no patents...so it is labelled as a killer drug (untrue of course).
Anyway a guy on a PCa forum (PPML) gave me a reference to a PCa patient whom used this in his Hrpca scenario and chartered his psa's....in his findings it did do something. It slowed down his psadt, his doubling times, it slowed progression that he could measure over a number of months...and his friend emailed me a psa chart of such findings. Yeah not totally scientific....but if you have Hrpca...you might look at all possibilities. You can buy this outside the USA if interested, you assume any risks.
I have tried very small traces of it along with my DES useage...I cannot prove or say it has done anything that I could prove thus far and I didn't notice any effects from it. I may be taking way to little anyway. I am not endorsing it, nor dismissing it either. You can find info on it at: www.thedcasite.com (Pharma-dca.com UK sales)
Of course you can try new drugs like Zytiga-Abiraterone that can cost $5000 a month for pills and look into to it and maybe learn is it basically a kind of re-engineered Ketoconazole only with new huge price tag and patented. Keto can be bought in Canada for around $130 for a 90 pills, both drugs require you use Prednisone in conjunction (so little more money added for that). I think the drug companies are setting the bar at $5000 a month as acceptable, Provenge is $93,000 and Leukine can cost $5000 a month, Revlimid can cost $150+ per pill. We shall see when MDV3100 (aka super casodex) or ARN509(improvement on MDV3100 from same doc inventor) get approved within the next year or more, then we will get a full doseage of what to expect as the future. I am for anything that helps a patient, and I don't care where it comes from, I do find it disgusting that profits/money is the predominant theme in treating patients. We all need a break in this fight.
Re: Dichloroacetate (DCA) causes regression in several cancers
Bob,
There are tens of thousands of researchers all around the world in government/hospital reasearch labs that are dreaming of getting a Nobel Prize if they can just find the key to stopping cancer. They don't have the $ 100 billion that big pharma companies do but they certainly spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year. If anything simple worked I think they would have found it.
But on the other hand, I had a dramatic drop in my PSA before I was diagnosed with PC when I used Aldara skin cream. Aldera is an immune response modifyer drug for actinic keratosis. Not only did it do a great job of getting rid of my actinic keratosis but it seemed to have caused my body to atack the PC (which I didn't know I had at the time). My PSA went from 7 to 2; it may have been a coincidence but I think it should be looked into. Unfortunately it seemed to only work on the PC when it was eliminating the actinic keratosis so once it was gone it didn't help the PC situation.
