Drugmaker Pfizer is pulling Mylotarg, a decade-old leukemia medicine, off the U.S. market after a study found a higher death rate and no benefit for patients.
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Finally....an honest trial with real findings? Published with negative results? Unheard Of!
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I prefer not to be a guinea pig.
In my world, there are things worse than dying...and paying for being experimented on or killed either quickly or slowly by Big Pharma is not on my personal agenda.
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No...it took ten years to tell the truth....pushing you past the opportunity to fight back before statute of limitations kick in....
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Drugmaker Pfizer is pulling Mylotarg, a decade-old leukemia medicine, off the U.S. market after a study found a higher death rate and no benefit for patients
I'll bet that every single doctor who prescribed this med said the dreaded words "The benefit outweighs the risk".
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if this cure is not working then i am glad it has been removed from the market. However, my 8 year old sister had cancer (stage 4 neuroblastoma) and was in a trial group for a new form treatment. Being a "guinea pig" is part of what saved her life.
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The key is that one is informed, educated and gives consent before being treated like a guinea pig.
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It's amazing that this stuff got past review, and was marketed. Is there no criminal liability for the initial studies, which had to be "doctored"? There is no statute of limitations on murder.
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Extremely unlikely. However, there are movies made about the people who have made such singular breakthroughs.
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Yes, but don't they usually die in the end of other causes?
Sorry, Robert.............I just had to.
Seriously, the FDA has no other mission, in my view, than to sleep in the same bed with food and drug companies which harm our health. They should be abolished, and something set up which actually has the citizenry in it's best interests.
Cancer is big business.............and there has plenty enough time now to find a cure.
I agree that this would be tantamount to murder. Something has to be done, I just don't know what it would be. It's horrible.
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Cancer is big business.............and there has plenty enough time now to find a cure.
Spoken like a true layperson. Cancer is a multifaceted series of diseases and conditions. Most are caused by a hereto unknown series of interactions between environment, genes, carcinogen exposures, immune system deficiencies, viral exposures, etc. Each and every cancer is distinctly different and even the causes are often difficult to determine (basically we guess based on risk factors and averages). So to simply make a blanket statement like "we should have cured cancer all ready" truly indicates that you have absolutely no understanding of the mechanism of action, pathology, or frankly even general animal physiology. Humans have yet to "cure" the common cold virus, and you want to simply believe that something as diverse and multifaceted as cancer should be a snap??? Seriously? /eye roll.
It's a good thing that Pfizer is withdrawing this drug from the market. The FDA required in March 02 that all clinical trials in the U.S. be registered (at clinicaltrials.gov) and results published within 1 year following final data collection and database closure. So, the FDA's oversight of big pharma is helping to keep them honest. In the past pharma could simply avoid publishing results of negative trails. Of course they can still bypass this process by placing a poorly performing study on an indefinite "hold" whereby they would not be required to publish, but Rome wasn't built in a day.
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What we do know... is how to naturally restore the RNA and DNA of the mitochondria of the cell...thus curing cancer. Information...research...not known in the medical Industry....since they have no intention of curing disease.
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Yes, well I may be just a mere layperson, however, I have am a 22 year lymphoma cancer survivor. I took no chemo treatments. I was cured through "alternative" medicine............older than traditional Western medicine by several thousand years.
While I am not as informed as an MD, and do not claim to be, my experiences are noteworthy as well. Seriously, quit rolling your eyes...........and or roll them counter-clockwise........try looking out of them from another person's point of view. Ever person can learn something new every day, no matter which degrees they do or do not possess.
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I've been told that I should take certain cancer drugs (I don't have cancer, but I have other conditions) to get some of my chronic conditions under control, and I've adamantly refused them all. The potential side effects are scarier than what I'd be treating! It's frightening how these powerful medications are pushed on us, and what really burns me is that they want me on these cancer meds so that I can get off of those "dangerous" and "addictive" pain medications (they can cause liver damage over the long-term, and that's only from the over-the-counter Tylenol that's part of them, and there really aren't any other serious complications that can arise).
It's stuff like this that makes me think that Big Pharma just wants us to stay sick to keep them in business.
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That is bad thing, but for some that drug probably really helped, and that is good thing anyway.
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Clipping this to a couple of cancer groups. And this:
Pfizer, the world's biggest drugmaker, has also suspended trials of an experimental pain relief drug for osteoarthritis, Tanezumab, after reports that patients' conditions worsened and led to joint replacements.
Can you imagine volunteering for a clinical trial for osteoarthritis then needing to get your joints replaced as a result of taking the meds?! Our lives and health are the experiment.
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Thank you, GOZO. I always look forward to reading what you share. Have a good day :)
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How did this drug ever make it to market in the first place?? and then it took over a decade to have it withdrawn... hmmn... how many billions did they make in that decade. I recently picked up a magazone.. Family circle, there were at least 4 full page ads for various drugs.. HPV vaccine was one, Boniva was one, an ADD drug and I don't remember the other one..but it's a common prescr. drug.. all 4 had some very scary cautions and SE on the ads, in fine print. It was very sobering. Sadly, with cancer, the fear factor is in full force and people are scared, sick and have to make decisions in a hurry. In my mother's case (uterine cancer, stage IV) we were hustled in another room where the oncology nurse sold us on chemo. She made it sound like an exact science (it's not), a treatment that would have a beginning and an end (it never really ends, usually recurs, is not the "chronic" disease we're being told it can be...) and ultimately she died 4 mos. into treatment. She was given Taxol and carboplatin, the "Gold standards" for ovarian and uterine cancer. When it comes to any drugs, script or OTC, let the buyer beware....
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I am so sorry about your mother, and that you both had to function and make critical decisions under fear and duress. That is such an untenable situation.
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Thank you very much. Yes sadly, most cancer patients I know and the ones I've met on the cancer discussion board I visit had to make decisions quickly. Their doctors really seem to push the fear factor button.
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As always, I am amazed by what I learn about Big Pharma day after day. It seems their job is to keep you feeling bad so you come back for more drugs.
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What we do know... is how to naturally restore the RNA and DNA of the mitochondria of the cell...thus curing cancer. Information...research...not known in the medical Industry....since they have no intention of curing disease.
Actually most cancer research is conducted at university labs- not big pharma. Therefore if you could "Cure cancer" again a misnomer since every type of cancer is different, then it would have been done already in non-profit universities and NIH sponsored facilities.
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