Re: Will we ever beat cancer?
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There is no big pharma conspiracy. Chemo is simply very inefficient. It's blunt force rather than targeted. They select the statistically most successful drug given the features of the cancer being treated, and move down the list if the cancer is unresponsive. The problem is the time taken to detect whether the drug is effective or not - not all patients have time.
It's not like the pharma companies are designing these drugs with deliberate shortcomings akin to planned obsolescence in a printer.
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