Did your GP work out the dosage? If so, what is it?

Warmest regards,
Sofi

I weigh 74 kg., thus I will be taking 1850 mg/daily. This will cost approx. $11 Cdn/day. I haven't begun yet, as the pharmacy hasn't received their order as yet. As I am on other medications, I will be monitored carefully.

I would think that anyone's family doctor could prescribe this.... my oncologist couldn't be cause she can only prescribe drugs approved by the Canadian Cancer Foundation but she's the one that said my GP could give it to me.

My GP did warn me that the University of Alberta webside is saying that they do not condone or recommend that humans take DCA until trials are completed. He also said that he would be doing the same, that I have nothing to lose.

SO FOLKS GET ON YOUR DOCTOR'S CASE.... I DON'T KNOW IF REGULATIONS OR WHATEVER ARE DIFFERENT WHERE YOU LIVE, BUT YOU ARE ENTITLED TO BE PROACTIVE ABOUT YOUR ILLNESS.

I will keep you all posted... I have to admit I'm somewhat nervous but then keep telling myself that this has already been proven to be non-toxic.

I think of all of us fighting this battle, and I wish you the best!

Loni

First of all, I wish you all the luck in your fight with your disease.

I can see that DCA is already ordered for you. Could you please let us know the source of the DCA from which your "medicine" will be prepared. Will it be prepared from "Sodium dichloroacetate" or "Dichloroacetic acid" or from some other substance? If you don't know these details, is it possible for you to learn from your pharmacy? I believe this is one of the last unknowns at the moment that we have to share with our doctors when we visit our doctors and ask for prescription, and when the doctor also do not know so much details about this medicine.

Yours sincerely

Hi ~ Are you in Canada? If not I wonder if I can get it? Interesting that they can fill the order.... I'm thinking that the manufacturer, in light of this explosion of interest, has decided to make an inexpensive drug, expensive? I'll let you know this coming week if I have any news. Thanks,
All the best

I also live in British Columbia. My name is Diana, and I live in Kamloops. My email is g_generis@hotmail.com. I am so excited for you that I just about jumped when I read your post. I am full of hope for you. Please contact me if you want someone else to be part of your journey. I certainly would like to be there for you.

For myself, my mother has Stage IV non-small cell lung cancer. She has already done the Platinum Treatment and finished Jan 4.07. She was told that her lymph nodes went down but the cancer spread in the localized site (lung). She is set to start Taxotere on Wed, Feb 21. My mom desparately has begged me to get this DCA for her. If this is a chance, my mom is willing to take it. Myself and my 2 sisters are all doing parts of it. But then I read that you have it from your doctor--that gives me hope. I spoke to my doctor about this, and his wife just got breast cancer, and he is keeping his ears open. That is not a committment, and I don't mind. My mother's onocology doctor pretended he never heard of it. I told mom before hand, that she could expect that. A responsible onocologist can not give out a non-approved cancer treatment, and won't even entertain that conversation. As she trusts him, she was disappointed. So she has 2 treatments of taxotere and that is it. I know that this drug can be so toxic that its side effects can knock a person down so that they die of secondary complications such as pnemonia.

Did you find out who makes DCA in BC or is it on your label?

I wish you well, please take care, and bless you.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreventionAndTreatment/story?id=2848454&page=1

Mark

This article by Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, is the worst case, or should I say, the best example, of falling into the trap of, what is referred to in Logic, as "The Fallacy of Composition": a fallacy in which what is true of a part is, on that account alone, alleged to be true of the whole.

Dr. Lichtenfeld is, in reality, dissing DCA and relegating it to the trash bin of previously failed highly promising new remedies.

Apart from his irrelevant arguments, I find the following hard to swallow:

"First, I did a literature search on PubMed looking for articles with the terms dichloroacetic acid and cancer."

Notice that he is researching Dichloroacetic Acid (NOT Dichloroacetate). (It's what I have already warned Heather about.)

And of course, he must be a spin doctor for his organization ... he insults us all by this parting shot:

"For some of you out there to inappropriately make them feel that DCA is the answer to their prayers based on this single early-stage report in a medical research journal is, in my opinion, not acceptable at best — and despicable at worst."

(Folks, we have our work cut out for us. Don't let this type of pomposity damper your will to see DCA used.)

Keep on postin'...

Your pal..."Z" in IN.

Melissa