• wheresmypillow@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Looks like a treatment, not a cure, that will require ongoing supplies of medication. This is a pharma wet dream. We can’t cure your cancer, but we can keep it from growing for just $2000 per pill that cost us $1 to make.

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      1 year ago

      At the moment, it doesn’t look like anything, since it’s just now in phase 1 trials, so nobody knows.

      But if it does what it says, then yes, it might actually be part of a cure.

      And I don’t know if you’re aware of it, as of now we don’t have a cure for cancer: https://xkcd.com/931/

      You can look up the average treatment cost today, it’s something like $150000, good for your that you already know the price of this pill and that it’s big pharma‘s wet dream.