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Yes it is real. You can read the review article here: http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v99/n7/full/6604554a.html

The only problem is that most cancers develop mechanisms to block or inactivate apoptosis pathways of which there are several, so DCA will not work in every type of cancer since these apoptosis pathways need to be intact before cancer cells will die. It is never that simple and some scientists tend to oversimplify the story.



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