The drug company that patents a reliable cure for any cancer can basically name their price and people will pay itpic.twitter.com/TtgCvpVcFy
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Exhibit A: Lenalidomide, which has massively increased the length of survival for multiple myeloma patients It also made >$10 billion worldwide IN 2018 ALONEpic.twitter.com/FC7pyKlNRv
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Curing a cancer (especially something like glioblastoma, which has a poor prognosis) is the holy grail of medical research Whoever gets that patent will have SO MUCH MONEY
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Other breakthrough cancer drugs are also very profitable, such as imatinib, which doubled 5 year survival from CML; the checkpoint inhibitors for melanoma
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Literally sat in a conference in Vietnam (http://www.transmedvn.com ) - many talks discussing breakthrough therapies/strategies to increase survival for multiple cancers (checkpoint inhibitors, CART therapies, gene therapies etc). Also talks on reduction of costing for LMIC.
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But yeah "big Pharma blocking cures". Sigh. It's a tired and inaccurate rhetoric which also belittles and demonizes the efforts of everyone from basic science to the staff involved in clinical trials.
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Even if one type of cancer could be eliminated by an inexpensive treatment, developing treatments for the hundreds of other cancers is a never-ending revenue stream. There is no reason to hide any "cure".
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And, of course, it's easier to externalize blame than to take responsibility for preventive lifestyle changes. Because no red-blooded American wants to be told to eat less bacon!
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And it’s not like we are going to run out of horrible diseases for them to try and come up with cures for any time soon.
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