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re: What is something that you absolutely know, that you wish you didn't?
Posted on 3/20/15 at 10:27 pm to JustGetItRight
Posted on 3/20/15 at 10:27 pm to JustGetItRight
Sorry for not coming back and responding to that earlier.
In a CoC program a few years ago we went and toured Hospitals, the VA and A&Ms cancer research in Temple, TX. At the cancer research center they said they've found and worked on several clinical trials that have had 40-70% success rates in various cancers. Breast, lung, colon, prostate, and others. Not one of them have been picked by big pharmaceuticals. I asked why and the answer I was given was exact that you've heard. The money to go through FDA and larger clinical trials would not match the possible money from the treatment. It would be a sinkhole for years and years and they aren't willing to put the investment into it.
In a CoC program a few years ago we went and toured Hospitals, the VA and A&Ms cancer research in Temple, TX. At the cancer research center they said they've found and worked on several clinical trials that have had 40-70% success rates in various cancers. Breast, lung, colon, prostate, and others. Not one of them have been picked by big pharmaceuticals. I asked why and the answer I was given was exact that you've heard. The money to go through FDA and larger clinical trials would not match the possible money from the treatment. It would be a sinkhole for years and years and they aren't willing to put the investment into it.
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Posted on 3/20/15 at 10:34 pm to 3nOut
OK. Your testimony raises a lot of questions, but it's also rife with unstated variables. A 40 - 70 percent success rate in breast, lung, colon, prostate, and other cancers? But the costs of trials relative the potential profits leave it lurching? We're missing something.
At the same time I currently know a blonde, blue-eyed, knockout female resident at MD Anderson in Houston who spends her 40 hours a week working on taking a person's DNA, inserting it into several hundred living mice, and testing cancer treatments on a "personalized" basis. We're talking hundreds of thousands of mice in that basement. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars.
It doesn't add up. It just doesn't.
At the same time I currently know a blonde, blue-eyed, knockout female resident at MD Anderson in Houston who spends her 40 hours a week working on taking a person's DNA, inserting it into several hundred living mice, and testing cancer treatments on a "personalized" basis. We're talking hundreds of thousands of mice in that basement. We're talking hundreds of millions of dollars.
It doesn't add up. It just doesn't.
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