But Chemo is a jobs program.
“One industry analyst put the size of the global chemotherapy market at $97 billion in 2017.”
While I am sure there are abuses with a market share that big, I can tell you from personal experience watching several friends go through Chemo and beat cancer. I hope and pray that better, less intense treatments appear but the cancer death sentence of when I was growing up has, to some extent, abated. I wish nobody to have to go through that but I am heartened that the success rates are climbing.
Not surprising, since for many cancer sufferers, that's all there is, bad though it may be. Seeing my wife endure it (with stage 4 breast cancer) all I can think of one's options is that it's a choice between a quick nasty death and a slow nasty death.
Sweet. It's keeping me above ground, instead of below it.
I am very thankful that I did not need to have intense chemo—I take a single pill daily. But I would not recommend that cancer patients who need it skip it just because some pharma companies are making a profit.
Why are you against people making a profit for providing life-saving medications to desperately ill people?
“But Chemo is a jobs program.”
As a six-year cancer survivor that chemotherapy put into remission, WHO CARES!