Ipilumimab has been in the US for a little over 2 years. It isn’t cheap. For an average weighted patient, the recommended regimen of 4 doses will cost over $140K.
The real buzz for the Melanoma indiction is the efficacy reported in Clinical trials for the 2 Anti-PD1s.
Of all the new targeted cancer therapies, what brentuximab vedotin is doing for CD30 positive Hodgkin Lymphoma patients I think is the most remarkable.
Today PBS is claiming that they posted the advance copy of the speech that the White House put out, not the actual speech itself. Looks like Fox News did the same.
Someone needs to give John Boehner a four foot long screwdriver. He can then go before the cameras & warn the American people not to fall for Majority Leader Pelosi’s photo-op stunt with the Gavel today. Holding the srewdriver over his head, he should declare that if the Bill passes, the democrats have screwed each & everyone of us.