Cancer drug trial halted in UK for being too successful

[Locutus]

Bravo.



THE trail of a new drug for prostate cancer was halted in the UK because the results were too good. Doctors at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London concluded that it would have been unethical not to offer it to all 922 cancer patients on the trial after the drug was shown to ease pain and cause only minor side-effects, The (London) Sunday Telegraph said.
The drug - Radium-223 Chloride, known as Alpharadin TM - targets tumours with alpha radiation, reducing the damage to surrounding tissue.
Dr Chris Parker, lead researcher on the project, said, "It's more damaging. It takes one, two, three hits to kill a cancer cell compared with thousands of hits for beta particles. They have such a tiny range, a few millionths of a meter. So we can be sure that the damage is being done where it should be."

Cancer patients on the new treatment have a 30 per cent lower death rate compared to those on placebo pills.
"It would have been unethical not to offer the active treatment to those taking placebo," Dr Parker said at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Stockholm.




Cancer drug trial halted in UK for being too successful | News.com.au

 

[petros]

There is no money in curing Cancer. What would T-Fal do with all the pink frying pans?

 

[Tonington]

There is no money in curing Cancer.

There are new cancer cases every year...it's an environmental disease. They haven't eliminated the cause, so there will be new cases all the time. Thus, any new cancer drug is highly profitable.

If there was no money to be made, they wouldn't have spent all the money to get that drug into Phase 3 clinical trials.

 

[petros]

If there was no money to be made, they wouldn't have spent all the money to get that drug into Phase 3 clinical trials.

And if Salk would have went for the bucks instead of public domain where/what would we be today? A bunch of gimps wishing we could afford the polio vaccine?

 

[JLM]

There is no money in curing Cancer. What would T-Fal do with all the pink frying pans?

Ya don't figure? Most of them pay more taxes while they are alive than when they are dead! :smile:

 

[Tonington]

And if Salk would have went for the bucks instead of public domain where/what would we be today? A bunch of gimps wishing we could afford the polio vaccine?

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts...Petros you would still be clueless about pharmaceuticals. Cancer treatments are massively profitable. So much so, that we even have projects pipelined in Animal Health for canine cancer.

 

[petros]

No **** Sherlock. Cancer is a massive for profit industry.

 

[Tonington]

No **** Sherlock. Cancer is a massive for profit industry.

And any treatment would make gobs of money. So it's unclear where your delusions are stemming from....