Forum Discussion
What research should we be doing?
Hello BCNA community! This is my first post. I'm a scientist working on breast cancer and I was looking through some of the threads here and it strikes me that the issues we scientists think are the i...
Independent longitudinal studies about the effects of the drugs we are given.
In addition to the cytotoxics, is anyone seriously looking at the long term effects of things like colony boosters, for example, (which have only been on the PBS for a few years) and the contraindications of long term medications ie: heart meds which are taken through chemo treatment. The information about AI is patronising at best, and appears dishonest at many other levels.
Leaving all that up to Big Pharma is risky given that Australia is a proven dumping ground for medications and treatments (not just cancer related) that are not approved, or have had approval withdrawn, in other parts of the world. Of course, there is a reluctance to bite the hand that feeds us. Better ruined than dead, perhaps?