• princeofsin [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Instead of the two to three weeks taken by current treatments from American and European drug makers, the Shanghai-based company — set up by a group of veteran Chinese cell-therapy researchers — is churning out cancer-killing immune cells overnight.

    But at what cost?

    • NaturalsNotInIt [any]
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      3 years ago

      But at what cost?

      Gracell plans to price its CAR-T treatment for about 500,000 yuan ($71,000), well below the $475,000 price tag for Novartis’ Kymriah, the Swiss company’s CAR-T therapy used to treat the type of blood cancer that Zhang had

      $400,000

    • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      lol churning out, what a choice of words. Yeah man, these unscrupulous Chinese are just churning out cheap vials of anticancer, who knows what the build quality on those things is amirite?

      • MerryChristmas [any]
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        3 years ago

        What do you mean are? I wake up, walk down to the factory, grab my shovel and start scooping piles of cancer-killing immune cells onto patients as they get passed down the conveyer belt. Because that's what real doctors do.