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Biotech / Medical : Share your aches,pains,experiences,joys and cures.
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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (727)5/9/2007 6:43:06 PM
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MD -

That is good news. Calling it a "cure" is premature, but finding a drug that shrinks tumors without being toxic to healthy cells would be a huge breakthrough.

One of the stories says that it would cost 70 to 100 million dollars to do clinical trials, and that the Pharmaceutical companies aren't going to shell out for that because the drug is already used to treat metabolic disorders and is not patentable.

So what's the big deal? 100 million dollars is nothing. Bill Gates or Steve Jobs could find that much in their sofa cushions. But seriously, the federal government could easily finance a study. If it is effective, such a treatment might save Medicare billions of dollars.

- Allen
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