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can certain diseases/illnesses be cured
Jdurg:
--- Quote from: boykster on March 29, 2008, 04:41:13 am ---Also, it's a catch 22;
people want timely inexpensive drugs to cure what ails them, but they want them to be safe. To be safe, they need to be extensively tested -> expensive and time consuming. The FDA has to balance these factors and both protect the public while allowing for drugs that serve the greater good to be available.
Easy? No......
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Spot on. :cheers: Just out of curiosity, do you work in the pharma industry? You've spouted out pretty much everything I've been telling people ever since I started in the industry oh so many years ago. ;D My attempt to summarize the process of drug discovery was simplified quite a bit as the actual process is very detailed and would take years to learn it.
CCM:
--- Quote from: ark_ader on March 29, 2008, 02:05:14 am ---
Steve Jobs has it and he is still kicking M$ around. So there might be some truth in it.
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This just furthers the point that you can't lay a blanket statement on cancer. You can't say 'Well person X had cancer and died, so everyone with cancer should die'. Or, 'Person Y survived cancer, so everyone with cancer should be cured'.
There are so many different types of cancer and so many levels of severity that makes it impossible to lump all forms of cancer together.
From wikipedia:
In mid-2004, Jobs announced to his employees that he had been diagnosed with a malignant tumor in his pancreas.[48] The prognosis for pancreatic cancer is usually very grim. Jobs, however, stated that he had a rare, far less aggressive type known as islet cell neuroendocrine tumor.[48] After initially resisting the idea of conventional medical intervention and embarking on a special diet to thwart the disease, July 31, 2004 Jobs underwent surgery that successfully removed the tumor; he did not apparently require nor receive chemotherapy or radiation therapy.[48]
ark_ader:
Thanks for that. :cheers:
boykster:
--- Quote from: Jdurg on March 29, 2008, 06:25:25 pm ---Spot on. :cheers: Just out of curiosity, do you work in the pharma industry? You've spouted out pretty much everything I've been telling people ever since I started in the industry oh so many years ago. ;D My attempt to summarize the process of drug discovery was simplified quite a bit as the actual process is very detailed and would take years to learn it.
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Yep, but in biotech rather than big pharma for the most part. I've been a bio/cheminformatics developer for drug discovery for most of my career, but currently I'm working in clinical informatics @ a non-profit cancer center (FHCRC).
Its definately a different perspective seeing the dtug discovery/development process from the inside.
:cheers:
Jdurg:
--- Quote from: boykster on March 30, 2008, 03:16:12 am ---
--- Quote from: Jdurg on March 29, 2008, 06:25:25 pm ---Spot on. :cheers: Just out of curiosity, do you work in the pharma industry? You've spouted out pretty much everything I've been telling people ever since I started in the industry oh so many years ago. ;D My attempt to summarize the process of drug discovery was simplified quite a bit as the actual process is very detailed and would take years to learn it.
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Yep, but in biotech rather than big pharma for the most part. I've been a bio/cheminformatics developer for drug discovery for most of my career, but currently I'm working in clinical informatics @ a non-profit cancer center (FHCRC).
Its definately a different perspective seeing the dtug discovery/development process from the inside.
:cheers:
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Very cool. I've been in the pharma industry for a bit over 5 years now, and while that doesn't really sound like much, in this industry five years is a lifetime. It's incredible how much work goes into the discovery and development of new drugs or application devices. Most people just don't understand how much work goes into this. I work on the Data Management side of the process which basically means that I look through the data collected from these clinical trials and ensure that it is accurate, sensible, and reported correctly. The amount of stress and work that you go through around the closeout of a clinical trial is insane. Typically you work 60 hour weeks at a minimum around that time frame. However, when you lock that database and give it the final approval, it feels pretty good. Though not as good as when you're at the pharmacy picking up a script and a complete stranger happens to see your badge hanging off of your belt and tells you about how a product you worked on has made their life so much better. That feels awesome. :applaud:
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