Re:We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
by missedthecue on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @01:10PM
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I don't know... Advancements like Keytruda are huge. And it will be off patent soon. And there are over 1500 active CAR-T clinical trials going on as we speak.
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Re:We’re secretly winning the war on cancer
by os2warpman on Thursday June 12, 2025 @03:13PM
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Oh don't you worry some pharmabro will change (edit: will pay someone actually smart to change) a single atom within a single molecule of the antibody, or however the fuck they do it, and they'll re-patent all of the derivatives, and nobody will make the off-patent version of pembrolizumab due to drug companies bribing benefit managers to not cover the off-patent versions, the fact that you can't charge $150k/yr for it, and gentlemen's agreements between drug manufacturers to not harsh anyone's vibe.
If we're lucky congress won't be bribed, I mean lobbied for the sake of safety, into criminalizing its importation.