cancer cure...

[recycling goddess]

this is unbelievable. you have to watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BHRHOO8SiI

what is the value of human life? ummm... nothing if there's no profit in it???? what is up with that?

[Patrick Long]

im writing this as im watching it

Im shocked, human value, but no profit?

Im glad at least someone is pursuing this.

[python.princess]

they better hurry up with those studies! each second they waste is a life that could've been saved! thanks for sharing this Aleesha!

[recycling goddess]

i know... isn't this crazy???

[icygirl]

Economics are no picnic. I learned that when I entered college as a chemical engineering major. It's a fact of life that in businesses, monetary values are embedded into everything. For example, once when we were studying chemical engineering company economics, we were shown a graph of a bell curve, and something like "costs involved" on the y-axis and "safety measures taken to protect employees" on the x-axis. The lecturer spoke about how costs involved would include both the capital used to install the different safety measures and the lawsuits against the company for employee injuries. That class really changed my own views on this subject; I believe I was a bit more naive about it going into college.

I'm a bit skeptical of this report... it was released a year ago and I feel like the news reporter is sensationalizing it a lot. The scientist he was talking to made it sound like any other cancer drug that appears promising, but cannot be known for certain until further tests are done. I can understand why the drug would not be marketed right away in lieu of further testing. Releasing a pharmaceutical onto the market is a big deal in many ways. And as for this being the miracle cure, the proof is in the pudding, as always...

[Mindibun]

I think the researcher has a point though. There are so many variables that go along with a new drug, and it should be thoroughly tested to make sure there are no surprise side effects. Introducing mass amounts of a drug into the general population isn't something that should be taken lightly, no matter how exciting it may be. Imagine how much money it would cost the drug companies and researchers if they went ahead and released this drug, only to find out that, say, in adults over 45 it causes brain tumors. Something like that, where they have to do a major recall, would be very detrimental. Not to mention, think about all of the innocent lives who had their hopes up thinking their cancer was going to be cured, only to find out they have to deal with something just as bad if not worse.

I dunno, just my opinion. I don't think we should jump to conclusions or be in too big of a hurry.

[starmom]

The FDA is always releasing pharmaceuticals into the population without rigorous testing or with testing that has been paid for by the very corporation that owns the drug. It is very sad. I do not believe that there does not exist a cure for some of the cancers we have had for so long....there has just been too much research monies poured into cancer for there not to have been enormous gains in treatments; and yet none exist that we are allowed to be aware of. Why not? Because cancer is a big money making machine for a lot of businesses in this country and in the world. It's gotten so bad that my daughter's house is being foreclosed upon because they have gone into the hole over the cost of her cancer meds. She isn't taking them anymore in order to salvage what is left of her children's security. Health care in this country is a sad joke for anyone not fabulously wealthy who is unfortunate enough to become really ill.

[icygirl]

The FDA is always releasing pharmaceuticals into the population without rigorous testing or with testing that has been paid for by the very corporation that owns the drug. It is very sad. I do not believe that there does not exist a cure for some of the cancers we have had for so long....there has just been too much research monies poured into cancer for there not to have been enormous gains in treatments; and yet none exist that we are allowed to be aware of. Why not? Because cancer is a big money making machine for a lot of businesses in this country and in the world. It's gotten so bad that my daughter's house is being foreclosed upon because they have gone into the hole over the cost of her cancer meds. She isn't taking them anymore in order to salvage what is left of her children's security. Health care in this country is a sad joke for anyone not fabulously wealthy who is unfortunate enough to become really ill.

I don't know about that. Think of how long humans went without antibiotics, and then randomly one day Alexander Fleming found penicillin growing in his trash can, and everything changed. Although there isn't a cure, we have come a very long way in cancer treatment. One of my biology professors said that in future years we are going to look back at chemotherapy and see it as barbaric and primitive, and by then we will have far more effective and less harmful treatments. And when the "miracle" drug or treatment does come about, you better believe it will be on the market.

Another reason to save the rainforests! As they say, the cure to cancer could be in a rainforest plant or fungus that has yet to be discovered...

By the way, I completely agree... our healthcare system is a total mess I'm so sorry about your daughter's predicament... I feel like that kind of injustice is way too common in America...