"Since you're treating the immune system, and not the cancer, this sort of approach should work against all kinds of cancer, " Dr. Allison said.
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But seeing a response in almost every patient is astounding, and Druker says there is good reason to enlist the immune system in treating CML. If AGI-858 is safe and even somewht effective, he hopes it might often be given on top of Gleevec.
As Dr Weil points out, America's health-care system excels at treating sick patients but is miserable at keeping them well.
While we're at it, Congress should repeal Section 4507, which virtually prohibits doctors from treating the elderly outside of the Medicare system.
So they are treating with drugs that impede the immune system, in lieu of helping the patient recognize that it would be a bad move- that it would not give the Provenge immune cells a chance to work.
Two years ago Congress, in a provision of the Balanced Budget Act known as Section 4507, in effect, prohibited doctors from treating Medicare-eligible patients outside the Medicare system.
Pfizer found that a drug designed to harness the immune system to fight cancer was not effective in treating non-small-cell lung cancer.
The authors acknowledge that the fee-for-service reimbursement system, in which providers earn more by treating patients more aggressively, impedes the kind of disruptive innovation that would lead to better care at a lower cost.
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"But even if we upgraded those systems, the lack of a really effective vaccine, the lack of better and faster drugs that shorten treatment to a reasonable time and the lack of good drugs for treating resistant disease -- make it hard for any health care system to effectively deal with the disease, " he said.
That is a figure that one MP described as "the tip of the iceberg" of overall costs of treating visitors who should not be given free access to the health care system.
Elan and American Home Products have ended trials of their Alzheimer's vaccine--once seen as one of the most promising new approaches to treating the disease--after 15 patients suffered a potentially serious side effect: swelling of the central nervous system.
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