[nik_s]

I think this is a very cynical take. Patients with gastric cancer are often in a dire situation: many of them have had their stomach removed and have generally significant difficulties with digestion, which makes consuming specific foods very difficult. The therapeutically effective doses of ATRA are also high compared to what you'd get from foods, meaning that injections are nearly the only solution for these patients. Finally, naturally derived compounds generally have the weakest patents, so if anything, we should thank these researchers for looking into the therapeutic potential of these drugs. I can assure you that few pharmaceutical companies would research this, as the commercial incentives are really weak to do so.

[Podgajski]

I’m talking about prevention not cures.