Reply #43: It's in wikipedia already. It names doctors and identifies a few caveats.

[tclambert]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichloroacetate

For at least one type of cancer, it had the reverse effect. It made that cancer grow faster. So not a generic magic bullet, but maybe real progress in treating some types of cancer. It's been through Phase II trials in Canada, and will soon enter Phase III testing. Some doctors are already prescribing it off-label. The drug has been around since 1864 (that's during the Civil War!) so it has passed into the public domain. Nobody owns a patent on it.

According to wikipedia These results received extensive media attention, beginning with an article in New Scientist titled "Cheap, ‘safe’ drug kills most cancers".