cancer drug has been restructured to make its cancer cell killing abilities up to 20,000 times more effective while also reducing its toxicity
Let’s say the drug was 1% effective at killing cancer cells. I.e you take the drug and it kills 1% of your cancer cells. Does 20,000 times increase in effectiveness mean its 20,000% effective at killing cancer? I.e. we have a cure that can completely kill cancer???
I doubt it.
The 20,000 sounds like A LOT, but what the hell does it actually mean for cancer treatment?
Sounds like better targeting. Have you read the article?
Yes, I’m not a doctor though. So what does “better targeting” mean for cancer patients in real world?
I’m just trying to quantify that 20,000 improvement to make sense to me, a regular person, because it’s just a random number to me.
It certainly doesn’t mean we have cured cancer. Does it?
“In animal models, we demonstrated that we can stop tumors in their tracks,”
They make it sound like they have cured cancer in that sentence. But they haven’t.
So how much more effective is the drug?
Does it save 20x more patients compared to regular drugs?
Because it certainly doesn’t save 20,000% more patients.
Is it just a clicbait title? and that 20,000 improvement will only save 0.01% more cancer patients and cost 1000 times more?
