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American Cancer Society Reference link does not support statement in the article.[edit]

The part of the article the American Cancer Society stated that "available evidence does not support the use of DCA for cancer treatment at this time [2012]."[3], reference links to a page on 'Complementary and Alternative Medicine'. There is no information on DCA on this American Cancer Society page. This would seem to be implying that treatment with DCA is 'Alternative Medicine' when it is not. A reference supporting the statement should be supplied or the statement should be removed.

For some reason, the ACS is redirecting the original page on DCA (archived version at [1]) to their general CAM page. The statement in our article accurately reflects the ACS content as it appeared. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 21:13, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps ACS have softened their stance on DCA and that is why they have changed their website. Perhaps we should say "The ACS in xxxx ..." or "the ACS until xxxx ..." - Rod57 (talk) 21:17, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled[edit]

Aperantly to many companies have edited this page, putting in temporally articles (or false claims), so i removed all those articles, and their dead links. If someone edits the pages then provide text and links that work, or else dont update, and dont violate wikipedia rules please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.107.183.190 (talk) 12:58, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Link in reference #7 is broken. This is a pivotal link to have available if one is to believe that there is no evidence that DCA can "kill cancer". 98.114.93.156 (talk) 09:18, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Bogus/ crap article[edit]

This article keeps getting bogus content and citation based upon articles that don't exist, even if Wikipedians try to correct them Everything from citation 9 - 10 - 11 should be removed. The current state is that it's researched as a cancer treatment. And if Wikipedians / companies don't like that then remove all relation to cancer till results get in, and just keep it as a chemical article only. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.107.183.190 (talk) 16:54, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References 9, 10, and 11 are New England Journal of Medicine, Edmonton Journal, and the US Department of Justice. Wikipedia considers sources such as those reliable. If you have specific reasons for thinking those sources are unacceptable or that the content based on them is "bogus", please specify what your concerns are. Also, please be aware that sources are still valid even if links to an external website are no longer functional. -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:39, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Neuropathy - found in one or many studies[edit]

Article says "Neuropathy has been a problem in some clinical trials with DCA causing them to be effectively halted" but the source cited is a primary source about a single study (MELAS) that used DCA at 25 mg/kg/day. Unless we have another source perhaps we should change "some clinical trials with DCA causing them " to "[at least] one clinical trial with DCA, causing it " ? - What doses of DCA have the other studies used that did not detect neuropathy ? - Rod57 (talk) 18:10, 10 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]