I sure hope either my current, or soon to be, sister-in-law (both doctors) responds to this article with some commentary (hint, hint)…

This article courtesy of New Scientist, and brought to my attention by Cash Struck.

It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.

It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.
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