Scientists cure cancer, but no one takes notice
http://hubpages.com/hub/Scientists_cure_cancer__but_no_one_takes_notice
Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.
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Il y a eu un papier dans Nature en 2010 expliquant l’histoire de cette recherche
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Voici une critique raisonnée de ces « exagérations » :
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/05/dichloroacetate_and_cancer.phpWe should be urging further investigation of this promising drug with the beginning of clinical trials, but it’s far too early to be babbling about “cancer cures”. There have been lots of drugs that look great in the lab and have excellent rationales for why they should work, but the reality of cancer is that it is complicated and diverse and there are many more pitfalls between a drug that poisons cancer cells in a petri dish and a drug that actually works well in the more complex environment of a human being.
One other factor that inflames the conspiracy nuts over this drug is that DCA is simple, dirt-cheap, and completely unpatentable — there is no economic incentive for a pharmaceutical company to invest a gigantic bucket of money in clinical trials, because there is no hope for a return on the investment.
This is why an independent academic community with research funded for knowledge rather than profit is so important, and really emphasizes why we cannot afford to privatize all biomedical research.
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