Posted on 10/14/2017 12:46:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
What the video—he’s talking about curing it with drug manufacturers’ drugs.
Our son in laws life was saved this year with immunotherapy.
He had cancer in the brain, lung and other places. The immunotherapy took it all out.
Went from from a less than 1% chance of surviving a year; to pretty much clear of cancer.
So far..
Fantastic. Congratulations ! I am guessing it was Keytruda/ Opdivo or the likes. Saved Jimmy Carter’s life too, from certain death in a matter of months to cancer free.
RE: Went from from a less than 1% chance of surviving a year; to pretty much clear of cancer.
So far..
Amazing. What Hospital gave him the therapy and how much did it cost?
Hate to tell you this but I’m not alone in my thinking.
I have all the faith in the world that doctors would love to be able to save all their patients. I think scientists and researchers would love to be able to find cures, and probably have. At the same time, I have a strong distrust of anything and everything the government touches. With the government it’s all about the money and the profits, not the patient. We have the best medical community and researchers anywhere in the world but the government can’t help but hold out for more money. Research facilities should absolutely be paid fairly for their research and cures but cures for a lot of these diseases should have already be found. I think they have, but the FDA and the government want to keep milking the situation for as long as it’s profitable.
Now that immune therapy is coming along, so will an official cure. That is, IMO, where they cure has been all along. There is no reason why a country as advances as our, with the doctors and researchers we have, haven’t found a cure by now. I think they have but haven’t been allowed to use it.
Many years ago I had a horse that had a disease that was at the time rare in horses but common in cattle. The Vet said there wasn’t a treatment for horses because it was rare and there wasn’t enough money in a cure to research it. He said most of the research was in pets (dogs, cats) and in livestock like cattle since they were profitable. We tried the cattle vaccine but it didn’t work and the horse had to eventually be put down.
I think a lot of this happens with research into human diseases. I think diseases like cancer and AIDS will be cured someday after another cash cow or two comes along to satisfy the government, the FDA, and PHARMA. I expect that they already know a cure, or are close, but they haven’t milked it enough.
Ok. I say this as FRiendly advice, as something to make your life better. Not to insult.
Again, you speak out of pure ignorance. (I mean that literally, not as an insult).
Stop with these semi-paranoid, negative thoughts and come back to real life. You’ll be better off and a lot happier.
“Hate to tell you this but I’m not alone in my thinking.”
I know.
It’s mainly still left wingers who started this sort of propaganda as part if their attack on capitalism.
OK, so keep trusting the government to tell you the truth and I’ll choose not to. Time will tell.
Not me. I love capitalism, just not blind trust in government.
You don’t seem to understand how you contradict yourself and are speaking against capitalism in your condemnation of major corporations.
“Amazing. What Hospital gave him the therapy and how much did it cost?”
University of Iowa. Not sure on the costs; but I assume astronomical!
Hopefully science will make these treatments much more mainstream and push the costs way down.
So, who paid for the therapy?
“So, who paid for the therapy?”
Not me!
Insurance.
Why would you ask?
As for my treatments, I was able to use a newer, targeted, monoclonal antibody. Within the first week of treatment, my tumor was noticeably smaller; by the end of the infusions and the radiation--approximately 35 days of radiation, 8 weeks of targeted infusions--I was cancer-free.
I can only assume that these people don't know anyone, nor have they any experience with oncology; hence, the ignorance. There are many types of cancers unfortunately, and not all of them are as successfully treated as others.
RE: Why would you ask?
Well, if it successfully worked for you, I’d really want the same to be available for people close to me, so your experience ( both medically and financially ) will be very useful reference in this regard.
So, Insurance, actually covers this...
On what do you base your claim that "cures...should have already been found?" Do you have the slightest idea of how disease is studied, treatments hypothesized, designed and developed, and then tested in animals and then humans? Do you have an understanding of how drugs are absorbed into the body and metabolized? Do you know why some treatments also cause side effects, and why some treatments work, and others don't?
Secondly, I can appreciate a general and healthy distrust in the government, but for novel and ground-breaking treatments, it can take the FDA six months or less to approve a drug. Given the 10-12 years to develop and test the drug, that's a pretty small review period, and I would hardly call that a backlog.
Finally, how would the government "make money" from delaying treatment? How is that "profitable" for them?
My cancer was treated, and cured. I know a number of patients in the same boat. I know, unfortunately, a number of patients who can't be treated or cured. Cancer is not a singular disease; there are many types, and they're treated uniquely, based upon known medical science.
You make a cute little play on semantics, but you don't know what you're talking about.
+1
Gotcha. Yes they had to meet deductibles; but insurance covered most of it.
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