Re: How to read a cancer testimonial

On Feb 6, 3:02 am, "Peter Moran" <pmo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"mainframetech" <chough...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message


My point is that with all the talk in the 'medical comunity about
using logic and carefully considering the results of well-formed
trials and studies, the community will move to the next logical step
with a treatment that looks very promising. The treatment in question
was tested by a small company that had ownership of the rights. After
the trial, it was quickly bought up for $1.3 billion (yes, billion) by
a large drug company and was not heard of again except as a page in
the annual financial statement. The big company that did the buying
had their own statin drug on the market, and other drugs in the
pipeline to help (not cure) coronary artery disease.

It doesn't matter which specialty we're talking about, cancer or
CAD, or whatever. The big drug companies see a threat to their long-
lived income and they take action. The drug above was tested in 2003
and the company was bought in Feb. 2004. The big drug company easily
had the cash to pay for phase III tests and put it on the market if
successful, but it would have hurt profits badly by curing may people
with CAD. They would no longer need the statin drugs, just an
occasional few months on the new drug that cleared the arteries.
Think of the income for a drug that "you must take the rest of your
life".

You mention how anyone who had REALLY seen good results would be
clamoring to go to the next step, and that was the case for the
example I gave, but no one was allowed to do that. While there have
been a few attempts to bring the idea out in different ways to get
around the patent thing, nothing seems to take fire like the example
did before it was squashed.

It is situations like the above that cause people to go to
'alternative' treatments, because they can have some control over the
treatment, rather than being in the hands of someone you don't have a
completely trusting feeling, or a company that will jerk you around
for a lifetime of income when it may not be necessary.

I have nothing against doctors and such that are truly trying to
help folks, but not when they have their eyes closed to the true
situation with big pharma and only will go in lockstep with the big
boys. I saw a new doctor a while back, and challenged him to
acknowledge that the medical community along with drug companies had
locked everything up and any treatment that was from outside their
control was never going to make it publicly, even if it had promise.
He thought awhile, and agreed with me, with the warning to me that he
would never admit we had the discussion because they would drum him
out of his career.

Sorry for the rant, but it gets to me when I see main movers in our
society turning the whole ship to their own purposes and leaving the
rest of us to sink or swim.

Chris

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