Why Is Dichloroacetate not Approved as a Cancer Treatment?
Side effects have stood in the way of a potential therapeutic for decades
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4 min readApr 17, 2024
As of 2008, an estimated 25–50% of potential cancer therapeutics that made it to phase III randomized controlled (human) trials would ultimately be approved as treatments. But even after decades, the great potential of dicholoroacetate has only…
