Off topic – More money to be made in TREATING cancer than PREVENTING it – NYT

Why Preventing Cancer Is Not the Priority in Drug Development

• “There’s more money to be made investing in drugs that will extend cancer patients’ lives by a few months than in drugs that would prevent cancer in the first place.”

• “Developing drugs to treat late-stage disease is usually much faster than developing drugs to treat early-stage disease or prevention, because late-stage disease is aggressive and progresses rapidly. This allows companies to see results in clinical trials more quickly, even if those results are only small improvements in survival.”

• “Between 1973 and 2011, there were about 12,000 trials for relatively later-stage patients with a 90 percent chance of dying in five years.”

• “but only 500 for cancer prevention, which confer the longest survival gains”

Proof of prevention takes a long time

Generally the prevention drugs – including vitamin D – would provide little or no profit to big pharma

See also VitaminDWiki

• Molecular Link between Vitamin D and Cancer Prevention – Oct 2013

• Breast and other Cancer prevention - Dr. Wascher 2011 book

• Overview Cancer and vitamin D General Cancers and specifics - including Breast

• Vitamin D, Sunlight and Cancer Connection – Holick Jan 2013

• Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat various cancers – Mar 2011

• Vitamin D and Cancer Treatment and Prevention – presentations May 2011

• Vitamin D and Prevention of Cancer — Is it ready for Prime Time – March 2011

• Curing patients is not a sustainable business model – Goldman Sachs – April 2018