• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    When it’s inevitably going to be a lot less than that, will you eat your words?

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      11 months ago

      If it cost ten thousand dollars I’d throw an enormous party. That’s already a very small price for a cancer treatment.

      • NAK@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Right? Bunch of morons who never had cancer, or never knew anyone who was diagnosed and treated for cancer, thinking a 10k treatment is expensive.

        Communism Stan’s be Stanning

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      11 months ago

      The article suggests the vaccine prevents the recurrence of a specific cancer by 44% vs conventional treatment alone. So let’s be pessimists and say it only prevents recurrence by 22%. Should we eat our words that still 1/5th of people who’d otherwise die or suffer horribly from a recurring cancer now don’t?

      I think I would be more skeptical of the eventual price of this treatment and less about its effectiveness.