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Amgen says drug combo cuts risk of death by 58% in small cell lung cancer patients
Posted on 10/24/26 at 4:03 pm
Posted on 10/24/26 at 4:03 pm
quote:CNBC
A drug from Amgen
could give patients with a notoriously aggressive form of lung cancer significantly more time to live when added to an immunotherapy from AstraZeneca
, a study found.
Full results from a late-stage trial released Saturday show that adding Amgen’s immunotherapy Imdelltra to AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi drug slashed the risk of death by 58% in patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, a fast-growing disease that has spread beyond the lung where it began.
The drug combination extended their median overall survival to 21.1 months compared with 12.7 months with AstraZeneca’s drug alone, the trial found.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 4:06 pm to bigjoe1
Drug dealer says their drug is good for you!
Posted on 10/24/26 at 4:10 pm to bigjoe1
So maybe $100k in drugs for an extra 9 months of life.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 4:12 pm to Tampa Ray
Yeah, let's be suspicious of modern medicine, not use drugs and pray that God will heal us like Jehova's witnesses.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 4:13 pm to bigjoe1
So do you smoke it or do you snort it?
Posted on 10/24/26 at 4:22 pm to Tampa Ray
quote:
Drug dealer says their drug is good for you!
Youth is wasted on the young.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 4:24 pm to Eurocat
quote:
eah, let's be suspicious of modern medicine, not use drugs and pray that God will heal us like Jehova's witnesses
Trust the $cience!
Posted on 10/24/26 at 4:50 pm to Eurocat
quote:
Yeah, let's be suspicious of modern medicine, not use drugs and pray that God will heal us like Jehova's witnesses.
Bet your arse if he is diagnosed with small cell lung cancer, he will be asking about this cocktail.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 4:55 pm to bigjoe1
I don’t know much about oncology but this sounds like a significant advancement.
I know my grandmother died of small cell lung cancer and it’s a horrible disease.
I know my grandmother died of small cell lung cancer and it’s a horrible disease.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 5:00 pm to Tampa Ray
My dad died a miserable death from small cell lung cancer. You wouldn’t be so glib if you had any life experience.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 5:15 pm to bigjoe1
Only $37,000 a pill.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 5:29 pm to bigjoe1
quote:
slashed the risk of death by 58%
Huh
Posted on 10/24/26 at 5:31 pm to bigjoe1
I’ll stick with my Ivermectin
Posted on 10/24/26 at 6:43 pm to bigjoe1
The twisted part of these companies is extending life (so they stay on the medication) instead of curing it (which will lose then money). Healthy patients don't need medicine.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 7:47 pm to bigjoe1
Extending life by what will probably be a miserable and painful 9 months is not reducing the risk of death. It's just slowing it down.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 7:55 pm to Adajax
To some people that 9 months means seeing their kid get married, the birth of a grandchild, etc.
And this is the first step. I expect more to come. Some cancers, even if not curable can be held at bay for years and sometimes indefinitely now.
And this is the first step. I expect more to come. Some cancers, even if not curable can be held at bay for years and sometimes indefinitely now.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 8:10 pm to Tampa Ray
Reject it.
Don't be a candyass.
And more importantly, tell your wife and kids (haha) not to take it either.
Don't be a candyass.
And more importantly, tell your wife and kids (haha) not to take it either.
Posted on 10/24/26 at 8:12 pm to NYNolaguy1
You're more dumb than I thought you were, so congrats, I guess. 
Posted on 10/24/26 at 9:45 pm to Jim Rockford
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To some people that 9 months means seeing their kid get married, the birth of a grandchild, etc.
It's still not cutting the risk of death which is what the headline claims. The article claims it only extends life by a median of 9 mos. Maybe I have a distorted notion of what cutting the risk of death means.
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