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My father currently suffers from bladder cancer, he's currently in palliative care, he's in Ukraine. If there are any medical professionals here, could someone provide an advice - is there any chance to get him access to TAR-200?
2.See if your father qualifies for any
3. Enroll
4. Get B2 visa. All medical treatment is usually covered once you are accepted into the program.
good luck!
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And for some reason a contingent of HN is cheering it on. We are breaking the innovation machine and pretending discoveries will just keep happening.
I'm probably part of the contingent you're alluding to. I'm not cheering. I am however a lot less likely to be depressed, mostly because whenever I tried to fact check a doom-like piece of news, I found it failing, hard. So now I'm at a "once every three months" rotation - which will of course change the first time I manage to confirm a piece of news. I am moderately pessimistic about the state of research because I…
I really wish this was available earlier, because I just lost a family member to bladder cancer yesterday morning. :(
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You’re right, those bright, talented kids will just give up and quit their careers because US government funding has been reduced for research in their field. It’s so sad that the only way innovation can happen is if it’s funded by the government.
Just yesterday, I had a conversation with an MD/PhD at one of the major teaching hospitals in Boston. There is a lot of uncertainty right now - a lot of funding has already been lost, and there are real risks around more funding being lost in the future (just as one example, the administration's plans to limit reimbursement rates will cost the Boston area teaching hospitals hundreds of millions a year in research fun…
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>I am moderately pessimistic about the state of research because I do hear things I don't like, but this is compensated by my belief that US academia has a ridiculous amount of institutional entropy, and I'm perfectly willing with temporary issues if this means at least some of the long term problems will be improved I am confused how 'burn it all down' will solve any problems, let alone long term ones. You seem to h…
You quoted my comment, but you don't seem to be responding to it? I don't think I mentioned any burning it all down, nor anything you responded to, really.
I'm not exaggerating. The innovation machine is currently ablaze. Even funded grants for things like cancer and alzheimers aren't being paid out because they fired all the grants processors. Multiple whole universities have been defunded entirely. An entire generation of scientists will have their careers stolen from them if this continues.
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The US isn't the only country with prestigious universities, that partially function on a form of social taxpayer welfare, that innovate in the medical field In fact, some other developed nations do it in far greater percentages of the universities' independent revenue. Many also have quite comparatively easy immigration paths for both students and workers.
The scale of the US research program, compared to the rest of the world, is about an order of magnitude difference.
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Unfortunately the recurrence rate after 1 year here is still quite high. Good progress, but not a cure yet.
Do cancers have a tendency to come back with better drug resistance if it's not fully eliminated? at least a resistance to the drug that got rid of it the previous time?
Sometimes that resistance carries over to other lines too. For example, Enzalutamide doesn't work for prostate cancer if you were already treated by abiraterone.
My father currently suffers from bladder cancer, he's currently in palliative care, he's in Ukraine. If there are any medical professionals here, could someone provide an advice - is there any chance to get him access to TAR-200?
https://euclinicaltrials.eu/ctis-public/view/2023-507685-10-...
To be honest, chances are slim to none. But worth a try.
My father currently suffers from bladder cancer, he's currently in palliative care, he's in Ukraine. If there are any medical professionals here, could someone provide an advice - is there any chance to get him access to TAR-200?
So sorry to hear this, I wish him the best.