[Olog-hai]

Full Daily Mail title:

A cure for skin cancer: Doctors announce historic breakthrough as ‘spectacular’ drugs bring hope to thousands

One in six? And notice the disconnect between headline and story; tiresome when they need to use hyperbole.

[Lancey Howard]

Did you even read the last line of the excerpt?

[Lawgvr1955]

Too bad Sebilius won’t let Conservatives have access to this treatment. I don’t know the specific malady that will take my life. But I know I will die from a case of Obamacare (rationed care), as will everyone reading this post.

[American Constitutionalist]

In the mean time stay out of the sunlight and use plenty of sun blocker.

[Mamzelle]

Good grief, if it’s true, it IS spectacular!

[Innovative]

I checked Wikipaedia and ipilimumab is FDA approved in the US.

ipilimumab

Ipilimumab (i pi lim′ ue mab; also known as MDX-010[1] and MDX-101), marketed as Yervoy, is a drug used for the treatment of melanoma, a type of skin cancer. It is a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved human monoclonal antibody developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb, and works by activating the immune system by targeting CTLA-4.

Cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) can recognize and destroy cancer cells. However, there is also an inhibitory mechanism that interrupts this destruction. Ipilimumab turns off this inhibitory mechanism and allows CTLs to continue to destroy cancer cells.[2]

In addition to melanoma, ipilimumab is undergoing clinical trials for the treatment of non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), small cell lung cancer (SCLC)[3] and metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer.[4]

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

One in six is AMAZING!

[FrdmLvr]

bookmarked

[workerbee]

We just learned that my father-in-law has been diagnosed with an “aggressive” form of melanoma. Thank you for the info.

[I cannot think of a name]

“One in six?”

I lost my Dad to this killer, and I can tell you, “One in six” would have made us jump for joy. Right now, even with the most aggressive chemo your chances are listed at less than 2%. In fact, all the doctors would discuss was the number of months of life increase that ‘might’ occur. Cure was out of the question.

[machogirl]

Obamacare is compared to that of British Healthcare (which the MSM here won't print the horror stories). I noticed this little death panel blurb about the NHS "rationed care" (come to US soon). "The breakthrough comes after David Cameron announced the extension of a £200 million-a-year budget to pay for cancer treatments denied to NHS patients because rationing body NICE believes they are poor value for money." ^There it is, a "rationing body" determining what is "value" and who is "valuable".