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Originally posted by Foxy1
reply to post by SpearMint
um like the lab technican running the cancer scan who is making 90k a year or the company who is employing him? im sure this is awesome news to them..knowing they would be out of work.
do you think human life is more important than billions of dollars? maybe as a simple individual outside the picture possibly
Originally posted by seentoomuch
Wow! Great news! I wonder if it would help against auto-immune diseases also, just reverse the procedure?
Originally posted by douggie60
reply to post by Blazer
I have to agree with you on this, the drug companies will buy it up and shelve it..
Originally posted by PhoenixOD
I think the way that people are lumping all pharmaceutical companies together , calling them 'Big Pharma' and then claiming that 'big pharma' wouldn't ever want to find a cure is much to much of an unrealistic generalization.
You have to remember that pharmaceutical companies are in competition with each other. They are just normal companies that solely exist to make money. Whichever company comes up with 'the cure' or a very effective treatment will make billions. This would allow them to make even more money. All the people they can keep alive will in the long run be buying more and more drugs off them as they get older and older.
Cancer can be very fast to kill a person once its diagnosed. Many people in this thread have said how family members passed away in less then an year after being diagnosed. This is certainly not very profitable for pharmaceutical companies in the long run.
I do appreciate that pharmaceutical companies wont go and fund research in things that ultimately can not be patented but this way of thinking alone proves they would go for something that is made up of complex drugs or treaments.
A cure for cancer would also devastate the US economy because of it's structure.
Say you owned a big company and found a cure for cancer in a simple yet inexpensive compound that could not be patented.
Of course they wont be interested in treatments that they can not make a profit from, but that doesn't mean they would throw away a good profit making treatment.