New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types

Re:New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major ca... by verve_rat on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @10:44PM (#29400421)

Wait what? Trails aren't free to participants? That alone is going to majorly bias the results.

Here take this medicine, we are fairly confident it won't kill you. Here is your $100k bill. Oh? Can't afford that? No trial for you!

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Re:New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major ca... by zaroth on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @12:53AM (#29401108)

Trials are absolutely free for the participants. Insurance won’t pay for non-FDA approved treatments and it’s illegal to charge for them anyway.

Ancillary routine FDA approved testing that accompanies the trials may be billed to insurance in some cases? I don’t know about that. But a trial for a novel cancer treatment will be free, if not even include an honorarium of some kind to defray costs to the patient for participating.

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