[Craig T]

Originally Posted by kach22i

Do you also laugh at current AID's treatments?

Totally different. The AID's treatments are disease management and suppression, not a cure. Antiretroviral therapy does not "cure" AIDs. It's simply a way to keep the virus at bay and prolong the patient's life. It can be very effective, but it's expensive and wonderfully profitable for the drug companies. It's when I hear the word "cure" that makes me laugh.

Just like with AIDs management, cancer immunotherapies, chemo therapies (cytotoxins), anti-angiogenesis, and drugs like Tamoxifen for breast cancer are also suppression and disease management. They are rarely a cure. In most cancers, chemo, radiation, and surgery for solid tumor, bone marrow transplants and chemo for hematopoietic cancers (e.g. Leukemia, lymphoma, myeloid), etc, put the cancer in remission, and a patient can have many cancer free years, but its often still relapse or metastasis of the original cancer that ends the patients life.

Big Pharma makes HUGE money on treatment and management of disease. The last thing they want is an outright cure (think insulin manufacturers and diabetes).