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As Cancer Treatment Advances, Patients and Doctors Push Back Against Drugs' Harsh Side Effects (apnews.com)
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For cancer patients, the harsh side effects of powerful drugs have long been the trade-off for living longer. Now, patients and doctors are questioning whether all that suffering is necessary.

They’ve ignited a movement to radically change how new cancer drugs are tested, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration urging drugmakers to do a better job at finding the lowest effective dose, even if it takes more time.

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[–] berkeleyblue@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I don’t know I always felt not dying was worth feeling like absolute shit for a while.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Your comment comes across as ignorant and flippant tbh. When treatment makes you so ill you'd rather die, a lot of people choose to stop treatment. If a lower dose can be effective, shouldn't that be explored, so that people's quality of life can improve and they are able to make it through to the end of treatment?

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I would have thought they would be doing that already... TIL

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