Posted by c-oreills 2 hours ago
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> He’s been on daraxonrasib since early this year, and describes it this way: “. . .it’s a nasty drug. It causes crazy stuff like my body can’t grow skin and so I bleed all out of a whole bunch of parts of me that shouldn’t be bleeding” If you go to that link above, be prepared, because he also looks like he’s had aqua regia thrown all over him (and apparently feels a bit like that, too). But his tumor volume has gone down by about 75%, and there’s a very strong chance that he wouldn’t still be alive at all without having gone on the drug.
We can’t know ahead of time which medicine works so you need to fund many teams at the beginning.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2505783
Paywalled but has a free access option if you make an account.
Researchers need to find permanent cures.