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I really want to see trials with these $200+/week drugs where the control group gets catered meals managed by a personal nutritionist, weekly massages, physical
by lukeschlather 8y ago
I really want to see trials with these $200+/week drugs where the control group gets catered meals managed by a personal nutritionist, weekly massages, physical trainers, yoga or free housekeeping or whatever. Trouble is you can't patent the result of such a trial, and it would probably often end badly for the people pushing the drugs. It seems like our whole medical funding model in this country is fundamentally broken.
- refurb 8y agoI'm pretty sure "catered meals managed by a personal nutritionist, weekly massages, physical trainers, yoga or free housekeeping" isn't going to matter much when you're dying of cancer.
- lukeschlather 8y agoThat's more a value judgement though isn't it? And I think it totally could matter in some ways. Chemo sounds like hell. It's easy to imagine 1-year survival rates for most cancers are highest with no intervention, and 5-year survival rates are highest with chemo. But 1-year survival rates with any of the things I mentioned might be higher than no intervention whatsoever. And 5-year survival rates with cancer are pretty bleak regardless so it's not hard to imagine simply helping people de-stress might be the best intervention depending on how you value a slightly better chance of full remission vs. keeping people comfortable.