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The reason preventative treatments are held to a higher standard is because they are given to a very large number of people who might never get the disease anyw
by ajb 3y ago
The reason preventative treatments are held to a higher standard is because they are given to a very large number of people who might never get the disease anyway. Hence, a 1 in 1000 risk is significant. If you are treating people who have had cancer, their risk of getting it again in much higher than 1 in 1000.
- Turing_Machine 3y agoRight. There's also the fact that the FDA will accept much worse side effects for a cancer treatment than they would for (e.g.) an athlete's foot treatment. For a bad cancer like some melanomas, just about anything that doesn't kill the patient outright is gonna be on the table.