A new therapy approved by the Food and Drug Administration supercharges the body’s immune system to kill a kind of skin cancer, opening the door to targeting more common tumors.

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  • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Iovance Biotherapeutics has priced the therapy, branded Amtagvi, at $515,000 per patient.

    Well thank goodness these kind souls made it so affordable. And im sure it will come down in price after its really proven to be effective right?

    I’m sure the RnD for this was expensive af but ffs man, even with insurance thats probably going to be out of reach for so many people.

      • lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Pretty close to Michael Crichton’s book “Next”. Without the persons consent, they steal the cell line of someone who’s cells naturally fight off cancer, create a cancer fighting drug, and then patent it, so the company legally owns that persons cells, and has a legal right to them with or without the person’s consent.