Re: Another Possible Cancer Killer

chris, odd that you said that. i was just lurking at yahoo's nhl group.

look at RIT in jeopardy. pretty much the same thing. it'$ the $. that'$
the bottom line. it is frustrating to see the companies pushing
their high-margin line. knowing full well that there are less costly
alternatives. a one-cent net profit is better than zero.

yes, i realize that they are supposed to *answer* to their
stockholders.
the question is will these stockholders be willing to shoulder the
indirect
result (read deaths) of tens of thousands of people for the sake of
capital
gain? i also realize these companies' R&D investments, i am not
completely
ignorant of that fact. however, the cost for the current treatments is
bordering on gouging (if not that already)

maybe ACS should push their big guns and lobby for FDA to accelerate
some of these *nickel and dime* medications. or at least make it
available as a treatment option. cancer is probably not going to go
away tomorrow.

i guess we'll have to wait and see what they do with it (in canada).
until the patients are running north of the border, i don't believe
the drug companies will seize the initiative to jump in first.

rich


mainframetech wrote:
a2rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
do you think there is a vested interest here (for cancer drug
companies)?

the drug seemed to have been used before, presumably with known
side effects. why not move it into clinical trials phase for cancer?

i think the beneficial impact (even if it does not *cure*) to the
patients
would be tremendous. if you include the financial side of it, it would
free up funds for other diseases also.

rich


Rich,
It was used before, but I think they didn't realize what they had.
It has now gone to the stage where it can't be patented, and so the big
drug companies can't isolate the profits to themselves. As soon as a
drug company would gear up and put the drug out, any and all others
would do the same, thinning out the profits and making less for all.

The only way these type of treatments will make it to people is a
government would fund the effort to put it out. The U.S. wouldn't do
it because they might hurt a nice big drug company. Sometimes a small
company will go into it, but they're hard to find.

Chris

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