‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six different forms of cancer

Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by a_imho on Sunday February 10, 2019 @06:13AM (#19127330)

The price has not yet been set. This will be worked out based on the success of the drug, the number of cancers it treats and what individual markets can bear.

Why is it not based on the cost of the treatment?

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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by gregcrv on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:07AM (#19128032)

From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescription_costs

“A study has placed the amount spent on drug marketing at 2-19 times that on drug research”

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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by JoeAltmaier on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:21AM (#19128085)

Wow drug research must be really cheap! To judge by the cretinous late-night ads for junk medicine. They can't have cost much to throw together...

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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by merpnderp on Sunday February 10, 2019 @10:31AM (#19128117)

I’ve always assumed the vast amount of marketing is the armies of incredibly high paid door to door salesmen who always seem to be visiting your doctor with some new pitch to reward them for prescribing their pet drug.

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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by Tade0 on Sunday February 10, 2019 @06:22AM (#19127367)

I think they're trying to estimate how long it's going to take to break even on the cost of research.

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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by alkonaut on Sunday February 10, 2019 @07:02AM (#19127454)

Yeah this is tax/charity funded research. It’s not a risky private investment as far as I can tell.

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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by mft_ on Sunday February 10, 2019 @07:49AM (#19127579)

The trials are being run by Seattle Genetics and Genmab.

https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03485209

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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by mft_ on Sunday February 10, 2019 @07:49AM (#19127581)

Because it's not yet been approved for sale, and in fact isn't even close - it's still at a very early stage of development.

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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by thefounder on Sunday February 10, 2019 @06:29AM (#19127384)

Because we are supposed to pay for results?

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Re:‘Trojan horse’ drug treated British patients with six dif... by guipsp on Sunday February 10, 2019 @03:13PM (#19129713)

Well, that depends on your personal economic philosophy.

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