Re: cheap safe drug kills most cancers

"or, maybe until people start trying it on their own"
That is my question. How would one go about trying it on their own?
If certain death is the other option, some people may want to try it.
It just might help. so the question is noy why, it is how.

On Jan 23, 6:01 pm, "Laurie Forbes" <lafor...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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laurie,

chris and i basically agreed (another thread) that this should be
pursued
further (not up to me though) and put on the clinical trial fast-track.
reducing
the cancerous tumor and proceeding with conventional surgical treatment

is not new in this field.

why not open a door to more economical way that will lead to the same
end result. all that i am trying to say is give a cheaper option (as
you put
it) to buy more time. the funds, time, energy can be diverted or
concentrated
to fine tune other methods.If this stuff is as good as it looks, I would think that phase 2 trials
would begin ASAP (phase 1 not necessary (or not as necessary) as
toxicity/tolerance has already been established in unrelated studies). One
problem is however the drug itself is not patentable as it has been in
existence a long time. The U of A researchers have taken out a patent on
its proposed *new* use but that is considered a "soft" patent and would not
stop others from using it (this from the principle investigator). The
upshot of not being strongly patentable is of course drug manufacturers
would not be interested in pursuing costly clinical trials (which can run
into hundreds of millions of dollars). The investigators therefore hope to
attract government, academic or medical research foundation monies to pursue
this further.

Another potential issue is that the drug has apparently not yet been tried
in humans with cancer (only in test tube or mice with implanted human
cancers). So, it may not work in humans or the toxicity profile might be
unfavourable in cancer patients.

I guess we will have to wait to see how it pans out in the trials, or, maybe
until people start trying it on their own (which I suspect will happen; I
know I would if faced with no other choices).

Laurie Forbes- Hide quoted text -- Show quoted text -

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