Cancer Research

Based on a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association today, doctors from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston have concluded that the reoccurrence of colon cancer in survivors that follow a diet high in processed red meat, fatty products, refined grains and sweets, increases their chances of a recurrence of the disease and early death.

Dichloroacetic acid, abbreviated as DCA, is an analogue of acetic acid and the salts and esters of this chemical compound are called dichloroacetates. Researchers at University of Alberta in Canada, have discovered that dichloroacetates can be used to treat cancer tumors in the lung, breast and the brain, without any side effects. Trials on rats have shown that the dichloroacetates inhibits the growth of tumors and shrinks it by 70%, without causing any side effects.