Medicine is stagnating in cancer treatment and research?
If you ask the typical layperson, he or she will say that medicine is doing wonders today in cancer treatment and research but the FDA published a 'panic bulletin' in 2008 noting that the number of new drug approval requests had declined for the first time since the approval process was established, and the typical patent attorney will tell you that the drug patenting laws are now inappropriate because they were designed to protect major therapeutic breakthroughs which are no longer happening. The death rates for many forms of cancer have not improved significantly for decades at all.Well in short, medicine is stagnating, but the public is being told the opposite with cancer treatment and research.The cancer foundation and all non profit ,public and private sectors are getting whopping money that is outrageous for cancer treatment and research !!With little to no improvements at alll in the past 20 to 25 years. What is going on?
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Check your facts and apply them correctly. I suspect that most recent cancer drugs are variations on the same theme. They've probably reached a point of diminishing return. A new drug slightly different from what's already on the market offers only slight added benefit. There's some really exciting research going on now about totally different methods for approaching the cancer challenges. But they're not yet ready for the market. I don't know if any are yet even in clinical trials. When they're ready, I suspect you'll see another boom of patent applications and new drugs.
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I agree 100%. In modern society cancer and other forms of possibly curable disease could be cured. It may have something ado with the pharmaceutical company's with holding vital information or just not the high technology is used for application to defeat curable disease in 2010.
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Title : Medicine is stagnating in cancer treatment and research
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