Editorial Note: If this is true, it represents the most glaring case of corporate greed rising to a state of near criminal negligence!

Story: Canadian researchers find a simple cure for cancer, but major pharmaceutical companies are not interested.

Researchers at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada have cured cancer last week, yet there is a little ripple in the news or in TV. It is a simple technique using very basic drug. The method employs dichloroacetate, which is currently used to treat metabolic disorders. So, there is no concern of side effects or about their long term effects.

This drug doesn't require a patent, so anyone can employ it widely and cheaply compared to the costly cancer drugs produced by major pharmaceutical companies.

Canadian scientists tested this dichloroacetate (DCA) on human's cells; it killed lung, breast and brain cancer cells and left the healthy cells alone. It was tested on Rats inflicted with severe tumors; their cells shrank when they were fed with water supplemented with DCA. The drug is widely available and the technique is easy to use, why the major drug companies are not involved? Or the Media interested in this find?

In human bodies there is a natural cancer fighting human cell, the mitochondria, but they need to be triggered to be effective. Scientists used to think that these mitochondria cells were damaged and thus ineffective against cancer. So they used to focus on glycolysis, which is less effective in curing cancer and more wasteful. The drug manufacturers focused on this glycolysis method to fight cancer. This DCA on the other hand doesn't rely on glycolysis instead on mitochondria; it triggers the mitochondria which in turn fights the cancer cells.

The side effect of this is it also reactivates a process called apoptosis. You see, mitochondria contain an all-too-important self-destruct button that can't be pressed in cancer cells. Without it, tumors grow larger as cells refuse to be extinguished. Fully functioning mitochondria, thanks to DCA, can once again die.

With glycolysis turned off, the body produces less lactic acid, so the bad tissue around cancer cells doesn't break down and seed new tumors.

Pharmaceutical companies are not investing in this research because DCA method cannot be patented, without a patent they can't make money, like they are doing now with their AIDS Patent. Since the pharmaceutical companies won't develop this, the article says other independent laboratories should start producing this drug and do more research to confirm all the above findings and produce drugs. All the groundwork can be done in collaboration with the Universities, who will be glad to assist in such research and can develop an effective drug for curing cancer.

You can access the original research for this cancer here.

This article wants to raise awareness for this study, hope some independent companies and small startup will pick up this idea and produce these drugs, because the big companies won't touch it for a long time.

Source: http://hubpages.com/hub/Scientists_cure_cancer__but_no_one_takes_notice

Just this week WD Allan let loose a little more information about his plans for his book series Spirituality for the Moment that he also alluded very much "does" include his first book as well!

WD Allan has for some time dedicated his time to more critical family matters that over the last year demanded much of his personal and professional time, but as of this winter he states, all is "a-go" for some new plans for his first book and the subsequent books as well!

WD revealed the following just today:

" I recently have had correspondence with numerous representing sources, some openly admit to being resistant to the idea of taking on "spiritual-based-material given the idea of it all today and to be honest who can blame them for being so gun-shy to the idea of a spiritual project the magnitude of which I have been proposing? With the current climate being as volatile as it is for the paper publishing business, they seem to be all aligned with the idea of skimming the surface of what they receive as they look for the next Harry Potter or the next Twilight series they can land their hands on. Spirituality just doesn't seem to be a priority for them any longer! I can tell you that some of the responses that my Agent (and yes, WD Now has an agent) and I have received have been rude to the point of them being unbelievable from some so-called self-professed professionals in publishing and literary agencies. It tells you just how acrid the publishing atmosphere out there is right now!"

WD then revealed the following: "I will only say this right now that my plans have taken a wide parabolic turn and with the cooperation of an experienced and a knowledgeable editing professional with a fine background, what will come out of Spirituality for the Moment over the course of this year will hopefully be fantastic! If a publisher wants to make an offer to bring the project on board that is fine with me! If not, then they will be left out of the loop entirely until they start talking like professionals instead of talking like hit-men with a vendetta against new and shining projects! All I ask is for everyone to stay tuned!"

Things are definitely moving it seems! Thanks for reading!

The SFTM Staff!