Looks like a treatment, not a cure, that will require ongoing supplies of medication. This is a pharma wet dream. We can’t cure your cancer, but we can keep it from growing for just $2000 per pill that cost us $1 to make.
It’s being developed for the last 20 years. These pharma companies have spent millions developing it.
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Do you really think that pill cost 1$? A single approved therapy takes years to develop and over a billion dollars. But hey if you’re view of an entire industry is shaped through Facebook comments I don’t blame you.
Further, maintenance therapy already exists in many cancers. This is not a new concept for literally anyone in the field of medicine.
You speak like someone whose never had to buy insulin before.
Which is cheap or free in literally everywhere except the country of free. It’s US problem, not industry.
I’m from a country in western Europe, and our pharmacies are running low. My dad was told several times over the last months that they’re out of stock and he should come back next week. Sure, the price here might be okay, but Pharma seems to prefer selling it more expensively elsewhere.
I live in the US, my wife couldn’t find test strips for over a week.
You are doing exactly the thing the person you are replying to is calling someone out for, so if anything you are underlining the point. Pharmaceuticals is a vast industry, and the matter they work with is not homogenous.
You cannot infer from the cost of insulin to inhabitants of uncivilized western countries what the actual cost of providing a still in-development medicine will be. More specifically, you cannot expand from being ripped off in one country for one medicine and the myopic view that provides to pharmaceuticals as a whole.
As a counterpoint in your case, I pay nothing for my insulin, as its included the base medical insurance everyone has to have. As are a vast amount of other pharmaceuticals.
I gave an example of a treatment style pharmaceutical that has been used consistently to boost corporate profits rather than serve the greater good. Would you like to talk about the cost of epipens next? How about the opioid industry?
A pill that treats solid tumours would be an enormous boon to humanity. You’re letting really tired cynicism get in the way of basic logic. This argument would mean that insulin wasn’t a breakthrough, because it didn’t cure diabetes.
For profit pharmaceuticals is indeed a huge issue, but it’s one that is entirely separate from whether or not a given medical treatment is good or not.
No I don’t think it will cost a dollar. That was hyperbole.
That’s what it is, a subscription based cure.
“as long as you buy our medicine you will live!”
I sure hope it isn’t like this. Medicine just enough to stave the progress of the illness but also not enough to cure it.
At the moment, it doesn’t look like anything, since it’s just now in phase 1 trials, so nobody knows.
But if it does what it says, then yes, it might actually be part of a cure.
And I don’t know if you’re aware of it, as of now we don’t have a cure for cancer: https://xkcd.com/931/
You can look up the average treatment cost today, it’s something like $150000, good for your that you already know the price of this pill and that it’s big pharma‘s wet dream.
Good to see this pill be created. Very nice.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A “cancer-killing pill” has appeared to “annihilate” solid tumours in early research - leaving healthy cells unaffected.
Professor Linda Malkas, who has been developing the drug, explained: "PCNA is like a major airline terminal hub containing multiple plane gates.
“Our cancer-killing pill is like a snowstorm that closes a key airline hub, shutting down all flights in and out only in planes carrying cancer cells.”
While initial results are promising, the research so far has only concluded that AOH1996 can suppress tumour growth in cell and animal models - with the first phase of a clinical trial in humans now under way.
The pill has been shown to be effective in treating cells derived from breast, prostate, brain, ovarian, cervical, skin and lung cancers.
PCNA had previously been labelled as “undruggable” - and it is hoped the breakthrough could lead to more personalised, targeted medicines for cancer in the future.
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