According to an article by the CanWest News Service, the fraud division of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking into allegations that a website is selling the unapproved compound dichloroacetate, or DCA, to cancer patients. Neither the FDA nor Health Canada has approved DCA for use in humans.
Dr. Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta, who discovered that DCA can shrink cancerous tumors of the lung, breast and other forms of cancer in rats, has warned that people could die if they took DCA. For the full article, go to www.canada.com.
