11-28-2015, 09:53 PM
(11-26-2015, 11:10 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: You're missing the point and taking it out of context.
A cure for cancer is a one time thing because you need many treatments of chemo, radiation, or any other means to treat your cancer, whereas a cure you only need the one time cure.
The point you're missing is that finding a cure would not likely eliminate cancer. There are so many types, and so many contributing causes that finding out how to rid it from a person's body would not likely prevent it from occurring in others in the future. Therefore, your argument of a "cure" being a one time treatment vs on-going treatment for a patient as strictly a dollar issue loses steam. Drug companies would not be less profitable since future cases in future people would not eliminate the need for their cure. And since it would cure cancer in a given individual, the price of the treatment could be made to bring the same amount or more than in a patient who is not cured but receives continued treatment with current conventional means.
