Cancer drug made 20,000 times more potent in breakthrough
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5FU is a very common chemo for a variety of cancer types. Increasing it's effacacy while reducing side effects would be a major win.
Why are we wasting money on getting cancer cells high? Like, shouldn’t we be killing them?
Big Ken M energy.
When the cells are high they dont see the treatment coming and are easily overwhelmed.
That's certainly great news! So... How many millions of dollars is a dose going to cost?
At least one banana and some duct tape should cover it..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ggSVPIsIOOg
"It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?"
Checks the current price of bananas
Welp. I guess I still can't afford it.
My chemo cost AUD$28,000 a month for two years (but as an Australian citizen I didn’t pay that much). So either more than that or as much as the drug companies can gouge, or both.
I suppose "the alternative to buying my product is death" is a rather effective business strategy.
I’m so lucky to have had cancer in Australia and not the USA.
To stay in your example: if something has a success rate of killing 1% of all cancer cells (which would not be very effective) , it fails at 99% of all cells.
A factor 20,000 imrovement would mean 0,99^20000 = 5.056988325166235*^-88 failure rate, which would effectively mean complete success in destroying cancer cells.
Alas I'm sure there's a different math behind that increase in effectiveness.
Sounds like better targeting. Have you read the article?
Sounds like the 20k number is in vitro. (In a glass dish with cell cultures). In mice its 59 times more effective as without the targeting improvement. The targeting improvement seems to be specially developed for blood cancer (leukemia). Not a doctor, taking out of my ass.