We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized
From a science and pharmaceutical perspective, maybe.<p>As the partner of someone in the US dealing with stage 4 cancer in their 40s, who has two hospitals fighting with each other over whether to keep using a chemo drug that&#x27;s sent them into anaphylactic shock twice in two rounds of chemo because it&#x27;s _more convenient_ for the infusion clinic to administer, and all of that currently held up by pre-approval from a relative-to-the-rest-of-US good insurance company that&#x27;s still already allowed $40,000 of in-network medical bills to hit us in just 5 weeks since diagnosis all after hitting the supposed out-of-pocket max?<p>From a cancer that had been misdiagnosed as an infection, an iron deficiency, and a benign tumor for four months prior, to give it a massive head start?<p>That headline can fuck right and completely off. We might be good at finding new drugs that can fight cancer, but societally we&#x27;re absolutely shit at fighting this disease.