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@northoftheborder

Wise words.

From my PoV (with stage 4) the goal of current treatments is just to keep me alive long enough to get the next-gen treatments in a few years, and the goal of the next-gen treatments will be to keep me alive long enough to get a cure a few years after that. 🤞

It might sound over-optimistic, but consider this: the treatment I started in 2021 (and which has kept me in remission since then) wasn't released to the general public until 2018 and wasn't in the Ontario formulary until early 2022 (!!! I needed special authorization from the Ministry of Health in 2021, which my onco team obtained in a few days). Things really are changing that fast.

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Nailed it, North….it’s kinda like football - just get me ten more yards to give me a chance to get ten more yards…
We don’t need a “cure” - although that would be awesome; we just need some new drug or treatment that gives us five years or more while they are coming up with ways to give us five more after that.
Cancer treatment in general seems to be going in that direction and it makes the “C word” a lot less scary.