Developing a cancer drug without Big Pharma: this hospital shows it can be done

Anyone can mix chemicals in a test tube and claim it’s the cure for something. That’s the easy part. Proving it’s safe and effective, that’s what requires a lot of capital expenditure.<p>This statement is a drastic characterization, but you could say “half a dozen PhDs can form reasons to believe they may have found a cure for something”, and the paragraph would end the same.

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&gt;Drawing up such a dossier is a profession in itself. An important detail: the EMA is asking for around €350,000 to assess the book.<p>This is a massive understatement of the regulatory hurdles at play. I have worked on dossiers that took 200 man-years at 400k per person. This is the development part of pharma R&amp;D. The dossier might be a thousand pages submitted, but that can easily be 100,000+ pages on the backend.<p>There&#x27;s a reason that even billion dollar companies crumble and fail under the documentation complexity.

Case in point, Cuba&#x27;s lung cancer vaccine[1]. Which a company has brought to the U.S. as CIMAvax-EGF[2].<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;cuba-has-lung-cancer-vaccine-many-u-s-patients-cant-get-without-breaking-law&#x2F;1019093001&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usatoday.com&#x2F;story&#x2F;news&#x2F;world&#x2F;2018&#x2F;01&#x2F;09&#x2F;cuba-ha...</a><p>[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roswellpark.org&#x2F;cimavax" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.roswellpark.org&#x2F;cimavax</a>

You will always need peer review, health safety, some insurance in case of serious damages and so on.

If federal funds are used to develop a medication or vaccine, it must not be patentable, otherwise it is a corporate welfare giveaway trading lives and poverty for money.

I think it&#x27;s not possible without needed legislativy

Not to break the news, but there are dozens of underground clinical trials. Billionaires are not waiting for the FDA. That’s ridiculous.<p>They hire their own chemists, and make their own drugs. This is not complicated.

Looking for a “drug” is part of the problem.

AI will change everything. Especially disrupting pharma, Hollywood, law and lawyers, and medicine. Only question right now is who will win the race and be authoritative?

That&#x27;s interesting. I was just reading about how high dose IV vitamin c can induce cell death in a wide variety of cancers, but somehow, despite this being known for decades, nobody has done rigorous research on it.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cancer.gov&#x2F;research&#x2F;key-initiatives&#x2F;ras&#x2F;news-events&#x2F;dialogue-blog&#x2F;2020&#x2F;yun-cantley-vitamin-c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cancer.gov&#x2F;research&#x2F;key-initiatives&#x2F;ras&#x2F;news-eve...</a><p>From what I can tell there are several things like this - that have promising anti cancer effects, that just don&#x27;t really get that much attention because there&#x27;s not a patent possible.<p>Really makes me think much less of medical science. Even if you couldn&#x27;t patent any thing you&#x27;d think you could get fame and fortune by devising a useful therapy.