Comment on Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought

• FaceDeer@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it cost ten thousand dollars I'd throw an enormous party. That's already a very small price for a cancer treatment.

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  • NAK@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right? Bunch of morons who never had cancer, or never knew anyone who was diagnosed and treated for cancer, thinking a 10k treatment is expensive.

    Communism Stan’s be Stanning

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      10k is expensive

      Less expensive than now? Yes

      Still expensive

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      • NAK@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s zero sum thinking.

        If it was 10k that is, literally, an order of magnitude cheaper.

        You can’t have it both ways. The people who I know who have had cancer, and had it treated, the cost has been well over 100k. Some over 200k. That’s per time. If it came back it would cost that all over again.

        So which is it. Is it evil that a new treatment could cost 90% less? Or should the capitalists do what they do and charge 300k for this better treatment?

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• Ganbat@lemmyonline.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As soon as you stop eating that pharma boot, homie.

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• arc@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The article suggests the vaccine prevents the recurrence of a specific cancer by 44% vs conventional treatment alone. So let’s be pessimists and say it only prevents recurrence by 22%. Should we eat our words that still 1/5th of people who’d otherwise die or suffer horribly from a recurring cancer now don’t?

  I think I would be more skeptical of the eventual price of this treatment and less about its effectiveness.

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