Cheap, Safe Drug Kills Most Cancers


	Cheap, Safe Drug Kills Most Cancers

milkcoy

2-6-2007 6:56 AM

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cancer drugs therapy medicine

milkcoy says:

the drug dichloroacetate needs to be tested in clinical trials next, possibly by charities, universities and governments as drug companies won't likely be interested as it has no patent and can therefore be manufactured and sold cheap.

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