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BNN BLOOMBERG | Miracle Cancer Drugs Are Making Big Pharma Billions. Others Are Getting Left Behind
Only about 1 in 20 cancer patients participates in trials of experimental therapies. Doctors and drugmakers should be prudent about continuing to test products in desperate, hard-to-find patients when they haven’t shown significant benefits in multiple earlier studies, said Jonathan Kimmelman, a biomedical ethicist at McGill University in Montreal.
“You have a ridiculous number of drugs and targets and combinations you can test,” said Kimmelman, director of the Studies of Translation, Ethics and Medicine research group. “You want to pull the weeds and take the drugs and combinations that have the best prospects.”
