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> For example, Rituxan (rituximab) only dates to 1997 It is kind of scary to me that drugs these days have such long regulatory lead times that a drug develope
by jorvi 4y ago
> For example, Rituxan (rituximab) only dates to 1997
It is kind of scary to me that drugs these days have such long regulatory lead times that a drug developed in 1997 is just now being entered into treatment regimens.
I understand why that is (the Thalidomide tragedy stuff and like that), but I also clearly remember reading an article ~10 years back that asked why cancer treatment seemingly hadn’t made any leapfrogs since the ~70s, and the answer was back then they could aggressively iterate on treatments.
- msla 4y agoI think you misunderstood: I said it dates to 1997 because that's when it was first approved for use in America. It's not that new in cancer therapy, with R-CHOP (the CHOP protocol plus Rituxan) apparently being introduced in the early 2000s: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9036549/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9036549/