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Re:Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cance... by Latteland on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:04PM (#17231775)
My mom had small cell lung cancer 10 years ago. She died in about 4 years, there was no immuno-therapy available for her then. This kind of thing is a miracle. It's another sign for those that need them that we do get payoff for decades of cancer research. It's really why we need to support fundamental research. We have put a lot of resources into cancer, will we be able to apply them to other areas, or move funding over eventually? Many kind of psychological issues are thought to have significant brain functioning causes or at least impacts, I hope we can eventually make similar progress there. Or on diabetes or whatever.

I'd have given anything to help mine. I'm happy your mom was able to get that treatment.

Re:Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cance... by mobilefriendly on Monday June 04, 2018 @09:40PM (#17234304)
This is also why we should have low marginal tax rates, including for the wealthiest. Immuno-therapy tech was basically angel invested by Facebook's Sean Parker https://www.parkerici.org/our-model/ It is important for society to have significant resources outside of the control of politicians and bureaucracies.