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HIV has gone from death sentence to completely preventable with a single daily pill or every 6 months injection, and readily treatable to the point where we hav
by wbl 2y ago
HIV has gone from death sentence to completely preventable with a single daily pill or every 6 months injection, and readily treatable to the point where we have geriatric HIV patients. Obesity is now effectively treatable even taking into account compliance. Hep C can be cured entirely with just six months of oral medication rather than a barely tolerable intravenous course that didn't work all that well. These are massive improvements that have changed how hundreds of millions of people are treated and their prognosis.
The road to the clinic is long, but there have been very big improvements.
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- agumonkey 2y agoIt seems like stock markets, a lot of bubbles pop, and it's easy to miss the trend .. every 5 years some progress is made.
- DennisP 2y agoAnd stage 4 melanoma used to mean you'd be dead in a year. I know someone who got diagnosed with it almost a decade ago, got three doses of immunotherapy, and is now cancer-free. Doesn't even have to get scans anymore.
- adamredwoods 2y agoMelanoma is the main cancer that responds well to immunotherapy, PD-1 inhibitors. Other solid cancers, not so much, although in combination with other therapies, is seeing some okay results. They recently found some types of rectal cancer to be PD-1 sensitive. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201445 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201445