DIY Cancer Therapy: Should dying people be allowed to experiment?

Nature News reports this week that cancer patients are buying DCA - a new drug with anti-cancer properties - on the Net, end-running clinical trials and causing drug regulators and researchers consternation.

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Posted by skipper8  on  08/12  at  02:55 PM

Thank you for this article- My friend is just starting treatment (aug11-07) and is being monitored through Medicor in Toronto, Ont , Canada...

It is amazing how CLOSE minded people can be and your article addresses a lot of those people......

The FDA in the states has come down hard on the sale of DCA - I guess there is no money in it for them , or the pharmaceutical companies that own the FDA .....

I will earmark your site in my favs for future readings

Regards

Kathryn - kif8skip@yahoo.ca

Posted by Cancer Survivor  on  10/04  at  11:34 AM

Great Article.. I currently have Lung Cancer and am taking a drug that is not on the market yet, my chances of living past the end of the year are slim to none without this drug. With this drug called trerra342, there is the chance that I could put it into remission. So I would say yes people should be able to do what ever they want to there body without the government or anybody else telling them what to do.

Jim Alexander

Posted by conandrum  on  04/08  at  08:01 PM

Indeed, it seems the solution may just be in the public domain, but locked away from the public in the form of a controlled substance.

Check out Hemp Oil (from the leaves) and the Rick Simpson Story in Canada.

I think people should know, before we are even forced not to talk about it.

Posted by extropian.pharmer  on  04/09  at  03:37 PM

That issue of who owns your body is core to this.

I import into Canada acetyl-l-carnitine which I buy at a health food shop in the USA. Because Lonza had l-carnitine classified as Rx in Canada Health Canada, Canada customs etc have rules that say you cannot have anything but the homegrown Rx. It does not matter if the other carnitines are differently functioning analogues, regulators want no part of arguing, they simply exert their power to rule over people.

I have a USA MD, a USA Rx where the health food stuff is put into script bottles and I endure cross examination every time I bring <3 months supply back to Canada.

In USA or Canada the law is that you do not own the right to do with your body as you see fit. Property rights might be OK for your house, car, underground petroleum, gold diamonds but it appears that the state appears to want ultimate control over you the person.

So your case with cancer drugs or other uncommercializable things boils down to that if the state cannot find someone who can they can control, who in turn controls the technology, they will do everything in their power to ensure it is kept unavailable to any of the citizenry.

Posted by Chris  on  08/20  at  12:55 PM

Very helpful DCA discussion, (besides www.thedcasite.com)
http://scienceblogs.com/terrasig/2007/02/where_to_buy_dichloroacetate.php

Perhaps also see related therapy :
http://webspace.webring.com/people/mf/faqshelp/CancerRemission.html

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