The Cancer Cash Cow

No wonder they never cure anything anymore.

"Payoffs of expensive cancer drug Avastin are debated" by Gina Kolata, New York Times News Service | July 6, 2008

NEW YORK - Cancer drugs constitute the second-biggest category of drugs in the United States behind cholesterol-lowering medicines, and accounted for $17.8 billion of total prescription drug sales of $286.5 billion in 2007, according to IMS Health, a healthcare information company. Spending on drugs for cancer grew 14 percent last year, faster than for all but three other diseases.

Avastin also has serious, if infrequent, side effects, some of which can be lethal. And because it is almost always used with standard chemotherapy - it did not work as well when researchers tried it alone - patients on Avastin do not escape chemotherapy's side effects.

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WTF?!

Making $$$$ of others MISERY -- while they are "treating" you?

Stay away from me, Doc!