Roche uses the "C" word...Cure!? [Archive]

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RhondaH

07-20-2006, 09:58 AM

Comments?

http://today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-07-20T161101Z_01_L20633679_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-ROCHE-CANCER.XML&rpc=66

Rhonda

lexigirl

07-20-2006, 12:05 PM

Rhonda,

Thanks for the post. It really sounds so very promising. I am not sure that I'd be considered early detected but I like to think so!

Lexi

MJo

07-21-2006, 07:33 AM

I'm Stage One. I pray this is true. MJO

tousled1

07-21-2006, 09:11 AM

Pardon me for being cynical but I don't believe there will be a cure for cancer. The pharmaceutical companies make too much money on the drugs. The article even states that other drug companies are trying to get into the market of targeted cancer drugs. Herceptin is not a cure but certainly is and effective treatment for HER2+ breast cancer. I am thankful for Herceptin because without it I wouldn't have a very good prognosis.

Unregistered

07-21-2006, 09:51 AM

RE: Drug companies don't want cure

I used to think that way too. But then I realized that the powerful Insurance Lobby balances that out by wanting a cure for every disease. Think how much money they would save.

penelope

07-21-2006, 01:34 PM

I do not think either is the issue. A cure would be worth billions to a drug company especially patented. Not to mention the prestige of it. And even though there would be knock offs a decade down the road, that decade would be worth billions of dollars to a company off of only one cure, for one cancer because as we know not all cancers respond to the same thing.