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Pumper4Lifeon Apr 06, 2018 12:37pm
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RE:RE:QUESTION Cancer is a big one, is a bit of An understatement . Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in the world:
https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-people-in-the-world-die-from-cancer ScienceGirl wrote:
It can be used for other types of pain, it got approved in the USA for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome :
https://www.stockhouse.com/news/press-releases/2018/03/14/tetra-bio-pharma-announces-fda-orphan-drug-designation-for-ppp001-in-treatment
The thing with pharma companies is that to obtain a DIN number which allows the drug to be billable via insurance, they need to run a clinical trial for each disease. In the future, I see TBP doing trials for other types of pain, but cancer is a big one for starters.