Thanks for sharing, Ed!!! OMG!!!!:
From the article – per Allison ~ “The big pharmaceutical companies are now all players. Many, many early biotech firms are also trying to gain a presence. What you see, though, is that a lot of companies with patents on older, more conventional drugs are experimenting by combining them with checkpoints, just because they have the drugs. This is being done, in my opinion, without a lot of thought. A lot of them fail, but that information is usually lost because there’s no requirement for reporting. That’s still important information. So many combinations that are being tried are duplicative. It’s just a mess.”
Interviewer ~ “Are these trials being done on actual cancer patients?”
Allison ~ “Oh, yeah. They’re wasting patients. By that, I don’t just mean a large number of patients are not getting the treatments most likely to provide them benefit. Because we have a limited pool of patients, the most promising trials are not accruing sufficient patients fast enough to get these drugs to the clinic as quickly as we can.”
Interviewer ~ “Is that ethical?”
Allison ~ “I think it’s unethical. I think there shouldn’t be any trial where you don’t learn something.”
THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Is what I’ve been YELLING!!!!! Maybe folks will listen to HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Way to go Jennifer and John! Ratties Rock! – les
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