tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post114009745313568338..comments2024-03-28T13:38:36.788-04:00Comments on Pharma Marketing Blog: Avastin - Supersize Profiteering!Vladhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04114063498108633047noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post-27203806860052744302009-02-25T08:01:00.000-05:002009-02-25T08:01:00.000-05:00on the Avastin website it saysIn order to grow and...on the Avastin website it says<BR/><BR/>In order to grow and spread, tumors need a constant supply of oxygen and other nutrients. Tumors get this supply by creating their own network of blood vessels. This process is called angiogenesis (an´-gee-o-jen´-i-sis<BR/><BR/>That's partly BS... Cancer is anaerobic, and doesn't need oxygen, it actually hates it. It does however need a rich blood supply to carry the sugar it requires to grow. <BR/><BR/>I know several people who starved their tumors by cutting out all sugars and glycemic foods. <BR/><BR/>North Americans eat 25 times more sugar than their bodies require. Which explains the high cancer rate.<BR/><BR/>In a lot of third world countries like Mexico, where cancer is not big business, it is easily cured by starving the tumors and oxygenating them.<BR/><BR/>but they won't tell you that here because killing cancer for free is bad for business.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post-73163651133525999962009-02-12T10:24:00.000-05:002009-02-12T10:24:00.000-05:00it's so sick! I am a physician from Italy, and we ...it's so sick! I am a physician from Italy, and we have public heath too. I think it's not a matter of costs but of price/benefits ratio. If a drug is able to cure a patient, then you will provide it, no matter of costs.1 year adjuvant herceptin can cure 1 patient every 10 treated? it's ok, you'll get it, no matter of costs. But what about avastin? Can it cure patients? obvioulsy not. Can it improve survival? most trials say no. just one trial showed a 2 months increase in colon. 2 months!!!! and they talk about it as a STANDARD!!!! Then why are we giving it? I think we all know the answerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8550428.post-1140116901682878492006-02-16T14:08:00.000-05:002006-02-16T14:08:00.000-05:00I'm from Canada, so I speak in a place where the t...I'm from Canada, so I speak in a place where the treatment is (hopefully) paid by the governement. I think that the ultra priced drug case must be analysed on both the individual and the populational side. A population can't afford the marginal (in the economics meaning) increase of utility that the drug will give to the whole population. An individual might want to pay the hefty price to have these 4 last month of life, because they are now much valuable. However, I think that no country, no matter how rich it is, can afford to pay all these ''last month of life'' drugs (Avastin, Herceptin...). They just don't have the money for it. Like you said, it takes just 10 000 patients to break the G$ wall, and so the government budget. Maybe the rich people in the US will be able to pay throught their expensive life insurance, but that's it.Jean Thibaudeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02150947992442115379noreply@blogger.com