Over under on a cure for cancer
treemanjohn
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A small team of Israeli scientists think they might have found the first complete cure for cancer.
“We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer,” said Dan Aridor, of a new treatment being developed by his company, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), which was founded in 2000 in the ITEK incubator in the Weizmann Science Park. AEBi developed the SoAP platform, which provides functional leads to very difficult targets.
“Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market,” Aridor said. “Our solution will be both generic and personal.”
“We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer,” said Dan Aridor, of a new treatment being developed by his company, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), which was founded in 2000 in the ITEK incubator in the Weizmann Science Park. AEBi developed the SoAP platform, which provides functional leads to very difficult targets.
“Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market,” Aridor said. “Our solution will be both generic and personal.”
We’re like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing, and that ends
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Let's hope that team doesn't disappear in the near future.
"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole of the law. The rest is commentary."
Rabbi Hillel (c20 BCE)
"will have a duration of two weeks"....whats that mean?
Sounds amazing
It would change civilization.
“When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.”
would love to see it today as I am possibly looking at chemo soon
From the Jurasalem Post
Morad said they had to identify why other cancer-killing drugs and treatments don’t work or eventually fail. Then, they found a way to counter that effect.
For starters, most anti-cancer drugs attack a specific target on or in the cancer cell, he explained. Inhibiting the target usually affects a physiological pathway that promotes cancer. Mutations in the targets – or downstream in their physiological pathways – could make the targets not relevant to the cancer nature of the cell, and hence the drug attacking it is rendered ineffective.
In contrast, MuTaTo is using a combination of several cancer-targeting peptides for each cancer cell at the same time, combined with a strong peptide toxin that would kill cancer cells specifically. By using at least three targeting peptides on the same structure with a strong toxin, Morad said, “we made sure that the treatment will not be affected by mutations; cancer cells can mutate in such a way that targeted receptors are dropped by the cancer.”
however; I don't think most people realize the $costs associated with the production of drugs. The FDA regulations alone are astronomical. Not to mention the actual costs of developing new drugs, many of which take ~10 years to pass FDA tests for sales.
I was recently at a 2Billion$ facility expansion for a pharma company... That $ doesn't include the 24HR operating costs...
Just saying...
*i honestly think the FDA approval process could be revamped and help get drugs to market quicker and faster.
Check with your local independent pharmacy too (full disclosure, I am an independent pharmacist). Here's the truth, most of the drugs on those $4, $7.50, etc drug lists actually cost fractions of a penny per pill. Go to an independent and most times they will match or beat those prices if they can get all your business. Here's a couple of the secrets. We sign a contract with a PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) who handles your insurance. A part of those contracts that I sign states that I cannot tell you if a drug is cheaper without insurance UNLESS YOU ASK. If I just tell you the cash price, they could cancel my contract which would make it impossible to compete with the chains. Also, I don't get to keep all of that $20 copay. Nope, the PBM hits me with fees so they can keep the majority of the copay (google prescription clawback for a better understanding). Very often, I would make more money selling it to you as a cash customer, and you would pay less out of pocket.
PBM's are the problem, complain to your insurance company and more importantly representatives/senators if you want real change. Also, take all of your prescriptions to an independent, tell them what you are currently paying out of pocket, ASK IF THEY ARE CHEAPER WITHOUT INSURANCE, and I'll bet they will beat the other prices.
Last note, GoodRx is nothing but a middle man for chain pharmacies. They add no value to the transaction. In most cases, my cash prices are cheaper than the price advertised on GoodRx
This ^ It will bankrupt too many very large companies.
Without cancer there would be a population problem already.
I am not saying I have the answer; but, up until my last job, I did not understand what all went into the development/manufacturing of drugs.
*i do not work for a pharma company, but in a related fields.