Comments on: Let cancer patients have this pill

By: msmajikk

msmajikk — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:23:24 +0000

Hmmm…maybe if men had a higher incidence of breast cancer.

By: gini.619

gini.619 — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:38:40 +0000

There are no side effects or risks worse than death. So many people lack the compassion necessary to make these kinds of decisions.

I have EOB’s and I know that some chemo is over 90K a dose. So to me 8K seems like a bargain.

If it only works for one month, the insurance company is out 8K. If it works for 2 years, they are out 192K. If the fedral government can pay to keep marijuanna smokers in jail for 30K a month, they can afford this.

By: BurnerJack

BurnerJack — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:19:01 +0000

What “risks and side effects” are worse than death?

By: Snowhite

Snowhite — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 22:12:32 +0000

I am a diabetic who is quickly loosing my eye sight, I receive injections of Avastin to stop the blood vessels from leaking. I only have insurance for another year and what I will do after is unknown. I do know that if a mother, daughter or grandmother can have even one day with her family it is worth it. Life cannot be measured by a $ tag and medication should be utilized in whatever arena it is effective. Do we let people just die because a few think something doesn’t work for enough of the masses?? What happened to the once great county we had that looked after the sick and aling, they deserve a voice, they paid in the past.??

By: elmwood

elmwood — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:38:52 +0000

Avastin doesn’t prolong survival in most late stage breast cancer patients.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6 674

By: anonym0us

anonym0us — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:21:46 +0000

Looks like insurers, and especially Medicare, have much more clout with FDA than individual patients. It’s quite understandable that they don’t see it feasible to pay $8000 a month for a not-so-probable chance to temporarily extend a patient’s life – that is, understandable until it’s a life of your loved one. Then you’d pay any amount – only not everyone can afford it. Death boards, anyone?