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by chilldsgn 13 days ago
I hope they can get this to people quickly. Someone I love has been diagnosed with stage 3 end of Feb this year and it's utter hell. For everyone, not just the patient.
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While not fully approved, the company has early access available to people who meet the treatment criteria and would potentially benefit. Their HCP should evaluate this (it's not all types of pancreatic cancer, and it's not a silver bullet - but it looks like its double the survival time than current chemo). Hopefully this evolves into a new class of treatment.
Honestly. for the ~2 months my mum had between a totally out-of-the-blue stage 4 melanoma diagnosis and the day she died in the hospice, I don’t think there’s anything she would have wanted less than to endure more of that existence, if someone had offered her that pill.
I'm sorry your mom had to suffer like that :( My loved one really wants to live, and I suppose some people are at different stages of mind with this horrible disease. I wouldn't want to extend suffering too, but if the patient wants to fight the disease, it is up to them.
Unfortunately, it seems that this just provides an extra year of life or so.

Of course this is better than nothing, but it is not a cure.

Moreover, the link provided by another poster to an article that discusses the side effects, shows that they are unpleasant.

Still, an extra year of life may provide a chance to survive until the appearance of a better solution.

It's an extra 6 months or so, and it's almost certain a better solution won't be come available in that 6 months, and even if it did you are very close to death and unlikely to recover even if a miracle cure is developed. In the meantime you are in intense pain and suffering wild side effects.
The abstract of the article claims that the median value of extra life time was between 8 months and 9 months.

Therefore those well above the median might have reached an extra year of life.

I agree however that because almost all of them (96%) had severe side effects, many people would prefer to not choose this kind of life extension.

My own parents were such people.

this drug was ineffective for my loved one, sadly. Hope it helps others.