The new cancer drugs – Helpful or harmful? | DW Documentary

Every year in Germany, 500,000 people are diagnosed with cancer cells. Just how dependable are the brand-new drugs?

Drug cancer cells research study remains in full speed. Brand-new items are regularly going into the marketplace, encouraging patients much longer and extra pain-free lives. Others also hold up the possibility of a treatment.
Most of these treatments come to the market via an accelerated process. Usually, they are gone along with by talk of significant developments and also new techniques: Targeted hormone treatment, antibody therapy, gene therapy. Investing on cancer drugs has climbed by more than half recently – to more than 8.6 billion Euros in 2019.

It’s a profitable market for the pharmaceutical industry. But survival rates are not increasing as long as wished. “We are in a scenario where we have increasingly more fast-tracked medicines with much less and much less assurance about the real advantage. And also we’re in a circumstance where we’re investing a great deal of cash on them,” says Prof. Wolf-Dieter Ludwig, Chairman of the German Medical Association’s Drug Commission.

What is actually known concerning the brand-new cancer cells medicines? Their side-effects, benefits and potential harm they may cause? Exactly how well-researched are they before they come to market? Who controls their use in technique? This docudrama looks for solutions.

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