“Who funds the studies? NIH? No problems there haha have you been boosted yet? You should get it again I hear that’s going very well.” -basednyourfknface420

That’s easy information to Google but I’ll help you out.

The drug, DCvax, was authorized to be used on anyone who could make it to Germany, not just for Germans but if you flew your ass to Germany with a glioblastoma, they would give you this vaccine as early as 2015. Easily a $200k treatment.

Germany’s toughest medical regulator, PEI, gave them a hospital exemption to administer this drug to patients who were in what you could call a terminal ward. That was like 7 years ago, man.

Germany is a country that rightfully laughs at our private medical corruption, and instead, they direct their resources to finding innovative treatments for their people. PEI only invested after the drug after it performed well in a hospital setting. I want you to imagine how a healthcare system could work without private corruption from insurance/big pharma. This country invested in this drug after presumably seeing it work in a very fucking grim setting. Imagine patients dying every 7, 30, 60, 90 days and now suddenly *they’re not * kind of shit.

Why would Germany offer to give a 200k therapy to not only their people, but foreign nationals as well? They have a healthcare system that works for their people, not a broken healthcare system that requires their people to die for it.

The conclusion we’re left with is either Germany spent millions of dollars to murder not only dying Germans, but everyone already dying with the most sinister brain tumor in the world, or, they’ve got a healthcare system that is agile enough to invest and deliver breakthrough medications to their people, and the world.

I’ve seen these patients die 10 months from diagnosis, and really the best we’ve got is a drug called Temodar which is like super-chemo injected into a reservoir anchored into your brain. If there is another option than that: sign me the fuck up.

Do you know what chemotherapy does to you? An oncologist once told me “i just give people poison.. and sometimes it works” - it’s a dark joke, but it accurately portrays the ineffectiveness of chemotherapy. He likened it to hammering a nail into your door frame with a sledgehammer, we got the mail in there fine, but we fucked your frame and door up in the process and the door might not quite close now. Chemo is the weatherstripping. he is not wrong. Chemotherapy isn’t targeted like these treatments are.

Why don’t you be anti-chemo, then you can sound smart instead of insane. You’re not safe from spreading disinformation on a technology subreddit: there are medical professionals here.

And for diseases that won’t be cured by 3D printing: there is gene therapy (like this drug we’re speaking of) and CRISPR.

7 years ago I mentioned medical 3D printing to a general surgeon and he humored me by saying the scaffolding isn’t there yet. It’s more than that though, one key challenge to any implant is your body rejecting and attacking it. Hell, just putting a random person’s actual kidney in your body requires you to be on tacrolimus (oral anti rejection medication) the rest of your life, and if you miss a single day your kidney may fail. We are a long way from dragging and dropping organs, we’re even farther from 3D printing them.

Either way, its entirely irrelevant to this discussion.

So young. We usually see men in their mid 30s, but I remember hearing that if a patient is diagnosed younger than that: it can be very aggressive.

I’m so sorry to hear that he passed so quickly after diagnosis. Our patients usually had 10-12 months depending on how quickly their GBM was caught, and their immune response to treatment. Many patients had maybe 6 months to arrange and prepare for the patients death.. so I truly cannot imagine having only 90 days to prepare for the unpreparable.

An excellent observation into how our privatized healthcare system robs people of the choice to live.

Where’s the ad? This drug has been developed through clinical trials starting in 2008.

Just because you don’t understand or care to understand the significance of this doesn’t make it not breaking news.

The company who made this drug is small and isn’t getting any favors from the FDA in its approval process. You do not know what you’re talking about.

Maybe it’s not what you’d want, but this treatment is offered well after you’ve been offered palliative care and hospice services, so your point is moot at best and incredibly cynical at worst.

It’s more than doubling 5 year survival rates in the most common and fatal type of brain cancer. You cannot minimize these results.

And importantly: it’s giving patients who will die soon more time with their families. Often times they’re living for their families in these final months.