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[–] _bac@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Its not a vaccine.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

Anyone else read this as "now available on VHS" and instantly get transported back into the '90s?

[–] moktor@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

As great as it sounds, the article is leaving out a lot of information. This drug has been available since 2014 in the US for certain cancers. My Mom was on it before she passed from cancer. The big news from this is that it will now be available in an injection, instead of an infusion.

[–] match@pawb.social 24 points 1 day ago

goddamn i forgot the world can get better sometimes

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 52 points 1 day ago (5 children)

RFK, Jr. will make sure Americans can't get it.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 6 points 14 hours ago

Vaccines are a vital threat to non-regulated supplements he is peddling.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it will also cost next to nothing in every country in the world, but be in the hundreds of thousands USD for Americans.

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago

#1 reason I no longer live in the U.S.

[–] CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What if the life saving cancer treatment gives the patient autism?!

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago

Since there is absolutely 0 evidence that's a thing, we don't have to worry about it at all. The only people who worry about it are sad victims of misinformation.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Tell him it cures Autism too.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

forget about the cure for cancer, they have a cure for neurotypicals

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago

Try putting it in a Hydroxychloroquine box.

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cancer vaccines, and a "sentient" cantaloupe as POTUS.

What a time to be alive.

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Please don't besmirch cantaloupes like that.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Could someone remind me the difference between a vaccine and treatment. For some reason I thought a vaccine was a preventative measure to keep from getting something - but this seems to be described as a treatment for when you’re diagnosed?

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's immunotherapy that prevents the cancers from deactivating the immune cells that would ordinarily kill the cancer cells. So it's like a traditional vaccine in that it causes changes to the immune system to better equip it to fight disease, but it's a pretty new methodology of accomplishing that.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Am I screwed now because there’s no way my insurance would approve a preventative measure or am I screwed later if/when I am diagnosed and insurance won’t approve the treatment?

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago

You guys are getting diagnosed?!?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You're correct. This is bad reporting.

[–] voicesarefree@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do they not yet know the relative effectiveness of this treatment? It wasn’t mentioned or I missed it.

It’s great that it’s faster to administer, really, but if the outcomes are not as good..

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 1 day ago

Immunotherapy has been making stunning progress so I'd wager positive results