Cancer drug trials. What should happen, & what does22 Aug 2024 13:10
The obvious way it should happen.
1. Organize cancer drug trial to see if the drug works.
2. Ask Angle to develop an assay to test x in the circulating tumour cells (CTC's). These are actual cancerous cells originating from a tumour. Therefore, they will react to the drug same as the cancer (they are the cancer!). Note the Plc doing the trial will know how they expect the drug to work, so they will know what to test in the CTC's.
3. Do the trial, getting Angle to test the subjects before, during and after the trial (via simple blood draw).
4. Angle advise the Plc doing the trial how the CTC's responded.
What happens.
1. Organise cancer drug trial to see if the drug works.
2. Decide paying Angle to do an assay and get back live data as the trial progresses is not worth the expense as we are only a multi-billion £ Company and our shareholders want big dividends. No morals don't care.
3. Wait to speak to the subjects over the coming months. See who is cured, who lives longer than previously expected, and who dies and when.
The people that make these sorts of decisions should be ashamed of themselves.
All IMHO.