Simplistic and very very WRONG.
In many, if not most cases of significant drug side effects the mechanism has not been worked out. What they can tell is....'historical data over the last 10 years of using this drug is associated with a higher incidence of this side effect...' THEN they begin looking into why. Simultaneously they'll mine that same data to see if it's more prevalent in one population over another. Is the side effect more or less pronounced in say, diabetics, or those with pre-existing heart disease, or those with immune system dysfuction?? Perhaps we don't see this side effect in some populations....lets look for that.
Again, Terry, you mislead the readers of this board. The TRUTH is you don't know. Neither do I. And neither do the researchers because IT HASN"T BEEN TESTED YET. You're continued insistence that because Herceptin has caused some deaths that ANY product targeting HER2 will ALSO cause some deaths defies even simplistic logic. (Can someone remind me of the name of this logical fallacy? You know the one where a faults of one group is attributed to another group?).
ALSO, even if it is eventually shown that Advaxis's HER2 vaccine does cause some deaths, it's still a Risk vs Benefit equation, you know, the post you STILL haven't responded to yet. Say it's eventually discovered that Advaxis HER2 vaccine will prolong life by 10 years, but you'll die of heart failure because of it. So a woman with late stage cancer is told by her doctor that she has 3 years to live, even with current treatment "but we have this vaccine that will prolong life by 10 years on average..." What do you think she would choose?? What would YOU choose?? Like it or not that's the type of choice many people have to make with various treatments, even today. Some aren't even TOLD about the risks by their doctors, though many are.
Science it Truth, Terry, an attribute you say you aspire to. Will you admit you don't know Terry? Or will you continue to insist anything targeting HER2 is "killer" even if there is no evidence for it??
