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1. Good news!: "Carter: Cancer is gone
Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday his cancer is gone.
Carter said in a statement that his most recent MRI brain scan did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots or any new ones and that he’ll continue his treatment.
Carter, 91, initially made the announcement...." near the beginning of the Sunday School class he was teaching..." Jimmy Carter: Cancer is gone, former president announces
2. From August:
"Former president Jimmy Carter on Thursday detailed an array of treatments, including radiation, that he will undergo for the melanoma doctors discovered in his liver and brain.
But he also mentioned that he had received an infusion of pembrolizumab, better known as Keytruda, which is among the first in a promising new class of drugs aimed at unleashing the human immune system to fight cancer cells. The Food and Drug Administration rapidly approved the "breakthrough" drug last year for patients with advanced melanoma who have exhausted other therapies, saying it represented a substantial improvement over existing treatments."
The ‘breakthrough’ drug Jimmy Carter is taking to treat his cancer
a. The cost of Keytruda:
3. A key administration figure committed to cost cutting is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy advisor in the Office of Management and Budget and brother of Rahm Emanuel, the president's chief of staff wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their own patient and consider social justice. They should think about whether the money being spent on their patient could be better spent elsewhere.
Defend Your Health - For a Fit Body and Mind
Downgrading American Medical Care
4.Dr. David Blumenthal, a Harvard professor and key health advisor to President Obama, conceded that "government controls on health care spending are associated with longer waits for elective procedures and reduced availability of new and expensive treatments and devices." Could this mean angioplasty, bypass surgery, hip replacement, and knee replacement? Who could this be aimed at? How about ‘longer waits’ for cancer patients? Mammograms and MRI’s? Defend Your Health - For a Fit Body and Mind
Did somebody say "Death Panels"?
1. Good news!: "Carter: Cancer is gone
Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday his cancer is gone.
Carter said in a statement that his most recent MRI brain scan did not reveal any signs of the original cancer spots or any new ones and that he’ll continue his treatment.
Carter, 91, initially made the announcement...." near the beginning of the Sunday School class he was teaching..." Jimmy Carter: Cancer is gone, former president announces
2. From August:
"Former president Jimmy Carter on Thursday detailed an array of treatments, including radiation, that he will undergo for the melanoma doctors discovered in his liver and brain.
But he also mentioned that he had received an infusion of pembrolizumab, better known as Keytruda, which is among the first in a promising new class of drugs aimed at unleashing the human immune system to fight cancer cells. The Food and Drug Administration rapidly approved the "breakthrough" drug last year for patients with advanced melanoma who have exhausted other therapies, saying it represented a substantial improvement over existing treatments."
The ‘breakthrough’ drug Jimmy Carter is taking to treat his cancer
a. The cost of Keytruda:
Some further research showed that a year of Keytruda will cost about $150,000, or $12,500 a month, according to The Wall Street Journal. To use a baseline, Bristol Myers' PD-1 drug Opdivo, which received Japanese regulatory approval in July, is going to cost the equivalent of $143,000 for a full year of treatment.Sep 9, 2014
FDA approves Keytruda for treatment of metastatic melanoma
www.philly.com/.../FDA-approves-Keytruda-f...
3. A key administration figure committed to cost cutting is Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a health policy advisor in the Office of Management and Budget and brother of Rahm Emanuel, the president's chief of staff wants doctors to look beyond the needs of their own patient and consider social justice. They should think about whether the money being spent on their patient could be better spent elsewhere.
Defend Your Health - For a Fit Body and Mind
Downgrading American Medical Care
4.Dr. David Blumenthal, a Harvard professor and key health advisor to President Obama, conceded that "government controls on health care spending are associated with longer waits for elective procedures and reduced availability of new and expensive treatments and devices." Could this mean angioplasty, bypass surgery, hip replacement, and knee replacement? Who could this be aimed at? How about ‘longer waits’ for cancer patients? Mammograms and MRI’s? Defend Your Health - For a Fit Body and Mind
Did somebody say "Death Panels"?