Cancer Cure?

Here is a link to last Sunday's CBS 60 Minutes

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/25/60minutes/main4752082.shtml

You can view it and/or read it.

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Of course, heavy emphasis on the fountain of youth aspect. However, I found it interesting that at one point in the program, there was a comment that this drug has potential as a cancer cure. There was also a comment toward the end that the owners of the firm researching this drug were recently bought out by a drug company for a huge amount.

"Initial test results on cancer patients are expected this September. Last summer, Dr. Sinclair and Dr. Westphal's little start-up company was bought by the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline for almost three quarters of a billion dollars."

I think this is a preview to the cancer cure. This stuff may not be the drug that cures but I assure you, there are numerous drugs being researched now. All the drug companies have to do to be able to patent a natural compound is make one insignificant minor alteration. And that is what the two doctors have done with this drug.

When they find the drug that cures cancer, it will not matter how much you or I have contributed to our favorite charities to find a cure, that will not save us from astronomical drug charges and treatment charges in the name of development costs. They aren't going to give this stuff away and cancer patients and their insurance companies will bear the brunt of the cost.

Maybe I should be grateful in the event a cure is found but it seems so unfair that we give so much and so much more will surely be demanded. I suppose fame is not as good without fortune.