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No death panel for Jimmah.
If the good die young....
Jimmah Carter is probably gonna end up damned near immortal...
God never wanted him and the Devil hates competition.
Isn’t Jimmy lucky that he doesn’t have to go through Obamanoncare? A 90-year-old with a melanoma that has metastasized throughout his body? The government would never fork over money for his treatment.
I’ll give him 3 months.
What’s the over/under on this old Commie?
Yep. I’m mean that way. ;)
In prostate cancer, the approved immuno process is called Provenge. The company that produces it is in bankruptcy, but they continue to produce it. It provides a minor extension of life, but this is for patients that are the most difficult and desperate.
What they are finding is when they apply this in disease progression earlier and if with other agents, the life extension can be significant. Much research is on combining existing agents, earlier in the progression cycle. Provenge costs 90K, which also is a factor.
Another immuno trigger is intense radiation on a small tumor called SBRT. Even then, less than half of the patients respond. I am one who has had this experience, and it’s way too early to see if it worked.
Jimmy Carter is 90. Ezekiel Emanuel says it’s time to go.
Let’s compare this protocol with what Obamacare would provide.
And then ask, why the difference?
"By the time I reach 75, I will have lived a complete life. I will have loved and been loved. My children will be grown and in the midst of their own rich lives. I will have seen my grandchildren born and beginning their lives. I will have pursued my life’s projects and made whatever contributions, important or not, I am going to make. And hopefully, I will not have too many mental and physical limitations. Dying at 75 will not be a tragedy. Indeed, I plan to have my memorial service before I die. And I don’t want any crying or wailing, but a warm gathering filled with fun reminiscences, stories of my awkwardness, and celebrations of a good life. After I die, my survivors can have their own memorial service if they want—that is not my business."
Seems pretty selfish for Carter to accept this treatment, considering what he and his fellow liberals have been preaching all these years.
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He died September, 1998.
I would think a more natural cure like hemlock would relieve us of his pain. Uh, I mean, relieve him of his pain.
Did his doctors have an end of life discussion with him?
Radiation doesnt work against most cancers.
I did a lot of translation of documents concerning Anti pd-1 antibodies and it really is the treatment of the future.
” another lesser-known treatment”
Because the ruling class should have access to treatments that the proles shouldn’t.
I am a cancer patient. I had surgery plus chemo plus immunotherapy. My cancer has been in remission for seven years.
bottom line......toast
I was diagnosed with a very aggressive bladder cancer one year ago.
My Urologist is convinced that my exposure to radioactivity while in the Army and stationed at Camp Hanford directly across the Columbia river from the 8 nuclear reactors running at several times their designed power levels to create weapons grade plutonium in the 1950s is the major cause.
Two surgeries, followed by 12 BCG treatments, and current biopsies are inconclusive.
BCG is an immunotherapy, and has been around for several years.
Below is a link to some brief information on BCG.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1950803-overview