RE:RE:RE:hyping THI agree, interpretation is important here. TH1902 won't cure all cancer, nothing will and JFM wrote that also. Can it be a "cure" for some patients? Maybe, we will have to wait and see. You will never really know if you are cured until the day you die of something other than the cancer because the reality is it can always come back. I have seen a documented case of 26 years of remission followed by a relapse in Ovarian cancer. Nowadays, cancer is thought of as a long term chronic disease. If TH1902 can put a patient in long term remission that would be fantastic. Like Parp inhibitors now putting some BRCA+ in long term remission. Or what herceptin has done for HER2+ breast cancer patients. I believe the Sort platform (not necessarily TH1902) has the potential to make that kind of impact on cancer patients that are SORT+. Maybe it will be a "cure" for some patients?
qwerty22 wrote: If this is about communication then it's no more helpful to repeatedly say this drug is NOT a cure for cancer as to say it is. I think most people already understand that cure in the context of cancer comes with a whole lot of small print. Seems to me you are interpreting cure to mean 100% cure, most people don't make that mistake.
jfm1330 wrote: No false hope given by Levesque and Beliveau, but a huge false hope given by the host Pierre-Olivier Zappa. TH1902 will not be a cure for cancer. Maybe in the future, in favorable cases some patients will be cured, but that already exist. Also, maybe in the future TH19P01 with another cytotoxic agent, better than docetaxel could be more poweful, but we are far from that right now. Also, you cannot talk of cancer and a cure for it as if cancer was a single illness. Cancers are a family of different diseases with a single trait, genetic deregulation of cell propagation. But this deregulation is caused by many different mutations. So impossible to treat or even cure cancer with a single approach. So to talk about a cure for cancer was pure bullsh*t on the part of the host. Sensationalism at its best, but hey, some wants promotion, there you have it!
princess77 wrote: Finally TH being talked up by the company, I appreciate it. I don't see any false hope being given in that article. They are excited, finally.