I hope they can get this to people quickly. Someone I love has been diagnosed with stage 3 end of Feb this year and it's utter hell. For everyone, not just the patient.
I hope they can get this to people quickly. Someone I love has been diagnosed with stage 3 end of Feb this year and it's utter hell. For everyone, not just the patient.
Unfortunately, it seems that this just provides an extra year of life or so.
Of course this is better than nothing, but it is not a cure.
Moreover, the link provided by another poster to an article that discusses the side effects, shows that they are unpleasant.
Still, an extra year of life may provide a chance to survive until the appearance of a better solution.
Honestly. for the ~2 months my mum had between a totally out-of-the-blue stage 4 melanoma diagnosis and the day she died in the hospice, I don’t think there’s anything she would have wanted less than to endure more of that existence, if someone had offered her that pill.
While not fully approved, the company has early access available to people who meet the treatment criteria and would potentially benefit. Their HCP should evaluate this (it's not all types of pancreatic cancer, and it's not a silver bullet - but it looks like its double the survival time than current chemo). Hopefully this evolves into a new class of treatment.