Cancer drug on black market comes as no surprise. Several months ago, reports came out about a drug being wildly successful at destroying cancer tumors. The drug is dichloroacetate, or DCA; but, there's a minor problem – or at least, a minor problem for a capitalist health care system – the patent has long since expired on this drug. This means that no current drug company can make super-profits off of it, as they are accustomed to.
Drug trials need to be done on this drug. I believe that Canadian researchers who discovered this are looking to do trials with public funding, but the process shouldn't be as long and drawn out as it necessarily will be under our current system. Many terminally ill cancer patients, aware of the study and their dire situation, have started acquiring the drug from the black market. A humane society would handle this better. With people taking this on their own, without supervision, it will be difficult for scientists to figure out what other possible effects the drug may have. We can only hope that the drug makes like better for those forced to turned to the black market.
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