Agree.
Thank God for the GOOD (not BigPharma compromised) doctors who are successfully treating MANY of these cancers with repurposed drugs.
You know ... the ones conventional oncologists won’t use, because they can’t make their $600Billion/year off of :-(
Honestly, some alleged conservatives are just as bad as liberals when it comes to topics like medicine and healthcare. You use terms like "Big Pharma", and I don't think you have any idea of what that means, or which pharmaceutical companies it may include. The term is simply a vestige left over from the COVID era, when "Big Pharma" developed ineffective vaccines. I'm not defending them, but I know there are a lot of excellent pharmaceutical companies out there that truly have the best outcome for the patient in mind.
First of all, "matched targeted treatments" aren't repurposing drugs. In the past couple of decades, targeted cancer treatments have been developed (by Big Pharma) that go after the specific way some cancer cells propagate in the human body. By targeting the disease in this way, less physical damage is done to the body than with conventional chemotherapy. There's also a better chance of killing off the cancer, because the treatments interrupt the specific growth mechanisms within the cancer cells. It's odd how you seem to be OK with some pharmaceutical development, just not development you seem to classify as done by "Big Pharma."
As a former cancer patient, I don't understand your back-handed comment about "conventional oncologists" not wanting to use the most effective treatments that they can. It was exactly opposite my experiences with oncologists. I don't think any of them made in the $600B range, either.