Can Green Tea Improve Your Chances of Surviving Breast Cancer
Written by zhanghan on January 12, 2010 10:51
Every year brings hope for new cancer cures to the media forefront and this year started with a bangA substance that was previously used in a metabolic disorder was tested on cultured human cancer cell lines in a Petri dish and mice with cancer and had very promising results.
The above paragraph has probably been stated every year for the past 30 yearsFirst of all, do not expect your doctor to be prescribing this product anytime soon, a single experiment with mice is just the beginning of years of testingAnyone who suggests it is going to help you soon is irresponsible or a con artist.
Unfortunately terminally ill cancer patients don't have this time and will be getting their hopes up in vain, this happens every year when cancer research makes it to the mainstream news programs.
The substance is DCA or dichloroacetate and the study that tested it in cultured cancer cells and mice just came out in January of 2007 in a respectable scientific journal and by a respectable lab in Alberta, Canada headed by Evangelos DMichelakis.
So why all the fuss ? It's years away from helping humans even in the best case scenario? Yes, probably, but it does raise a few ethical debates and hopeful issues.