The University of Alabama at Birmingham announced on May 30th, at a meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology annual meeting in Orlando, Florida, that they had come across a treatment that stops the advance of Glioblastoma multiforme, one of the most dreaded, and most hopeless, diagnoses a doctor can give a patient.
A 100% fatal form of brain cancer, prognosis at diagnosis is a few months of life at best.
Dr. John Fiveash, M.D., an associate professor in the UAB Department of Radiation Oncology and the lead researcher on a new study, demonstrated that their experiments with a new treatment AT-101 stopped new growth of multiforme dead in its tracks. It has also shown effectiveness in halting progress of other cancers.
Why won't you ever see it? It's a natural substance found in cottonseeds and it's cheap. Big pharma and the A.M.A. won't make much from it, so it will be suppressed.
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Comments: 8
If it's not a patentable, synthethic hunk of garbage then "they" aren't interested and in fact will do whatever possible to squash and discredit what / who so it's doesn't get out there. So very sad that everything today is about money.
let us hope 4 the best
It may be cheap, but packaging it into an "appropriate treatment form" could add mucho dinero to the alleged cost before marketing... and make it patentable to boot. Once patented, of course, they can control the production, eh?
Not that an American pharmaceutical company would be so cynical and heartless... would they?
If it works, and could lead to similar treatment for other cancers, that could reduce or even eliminate the need for damaging (and profitable, expensive) chemo and radiation treatments... I could see a lot of entities wanting to bury this (pun intended).
Maybe insurance companies need to get behind this (if it works) for that very reason. It may not help big pharma, but if it could save money along with lives, it would be in insurer's best interests to jump on that... not that they'll have the sense to do so.
O.o
Either way, lets hope it works! Just the idea that a better way to fight cancer... that's encouraging despite the fight it would take to get it into medical use.
Are you kidding? Big pharma & the AMa will jump on this, raise the price, isolate the specific sub-species of cotton that produces the seed and make them unavailable to anyone except them selves then they will matket this for huge profits!
Actually Big Pharma will find a way to make money from it. It is the AMA that is the major threat. If it is too radical to what they feel should work, then they are less likely to support it, and more likely to buy off support from it. They have done this in the past, and had the Big Pharma Companies in a total up roar over it. AMA has more influence with the FDA than Big Pharma does, and has used it in the past to stop medicines that had shown to be very benefitial from making it, even with Big Pharma fighting for the development of the Chemical. Big Pharma has never had a problem with radical ideas that show to work. AMA on the other hand has shown a major issue with it.