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[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 52 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

RFK, Jr. will make sure Americans can't get it.

[–] CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What if the life saving cancer treatment gives the patient autism?!

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

forget about the cure for cancer, they have a cure for neurotypicals

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Tell him it cures Autism too.

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Since there is absolutely 0 evidence that's a thing, we don't have to worry about it at all. The only people who worry about it are sad victims of misinformation.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

it will also cost next to nothing in every country in the world, but be in the hundreds of thousands USD for Americans.

[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

#1 reason I no longer live in the U.S.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Try putting it in a Hydroxychloroquine box.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

Vaccines are a vital threat to non-regulated supplements he is peddling.

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Cancer vaccines, and a "sentient" cantaloupe as POTUS.

What a time to be alive.

[–] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Please don't besmirch cantaloupes like that.

[–] match@pawb.social 23 points 2 weeks ago

goddamn i forgot the world can get better sometimes

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Could someone remind me the difference between a vaccine and treatment. For some reason I thought a vaccine was a preventative measure to keep from getting something - but this seems to be described as a treatment for when you’re diagnosed?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You're correct. This is bad reporting.

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's immunotherapy that prevents the cancers from deactivating the immune cells that would ordinarily kill the cancer cells. So it's like a traditional vaccine in that it causes changes to the immune system to better equip it to fight disease, but it's a pretty new methodology of accomplishing that.

[–] etchinghillside@reddthat.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Am I screwed now because there’s no way my insurance would approve a preventative measure or am I screwed later if/when I am diagnosed and insurance won’t approve the treatment?

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

You guys are getting diagnosed?!?

[–] voicesarefree@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do they not yet know the relative effectiveness of this treatment? It wasn’t mentioned or I missed it.

It’s great that it’s faster to administer, really, but if the outcomes are not as good..

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

Immunotherapy has been making stunning progress so I'd wager positive results

[–] moktor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

As great as it sounds, the article is leaving out a lot of information. This drug has been available since 2014 in the US for certain cancers. My Mom was on it before she passed from cancer. The big news from this is that it will now be available in an injection, instead of an infusion.

[–] _bac@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Its not a vaccine.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Anyone else read this as "now available on VHS" and instantly get transported back into the '90s?