"Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers"

[TuckBodi]

it would be a good thing if some of you dismiss that conspiracy hat and start using your brains.

Actually I get to use my wallet.....$1 X 5 finger pricks/day X 365 days a year and you can't tell me somebody is getting rich off of me and they can't make them cheaper. And then there's my infusion sets which I rotate every 3 days which costs me $11 bucks after insurance, out of my pocket. Then there's insulin which I used to be able to get cheap from Canada (exact same mfg/bottle) but due to lobby pressure (yup, you know by who) I have to pay 3X the cost down here. Yeah, there's no greed in the pharmaceutical/insurance world.

BTW, I have a sister with breast cancer and a close aunt who just passed away from ovarian cancer so this news gives me hope. Just a little cynical these days..

 

[IJ Reilly]

Both sides of this debate make some valid points. Yes, the pharmaceutical industry is greedy. All industries are greedy. But no, they haven't got the power to keep "miracle" drugs off the market.

Think on this: not so many years ago, diabetes was essentially a death sentence. Today, it's a manageable disease for most.

The problem is, we tend to be misled into believing that every potentially positive research theory is the big breakthrough that will cure some given disease once and for all. The reality is that few diseases are cured by single breakthroughs. It's usually a long, tough slog -- and cancer is the longest toughest slog of all, because it's possibly the most mysterious disease of all. After all the decades of research, science still knows remarkably little about its causes. Most of the real breakthroughs have been in early detection and treatment. They don't get big headlines, but they save lives.