[adrian_b]

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.

[ltbarcly3]

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.

[adrian_b]

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.