For all new treatments, the big decision to be made is whether the benefits (cure) outweigh the risks (side-effects, toxicity).
Continuing such treatment with no hope of benefit or cure would equate to an undue therapeutic obstinacy, especially for patients who are no longer able to express their wishes.
Meanwhile, the report said, certain political leaders have exacerbated the confusion by expressing concern "about potential toxicities of ARVs [antiretroviral drugs] while simultaneously promoting alternative nutritional therapies for benefit or cure of HIV".
For example, a benefit of "cure for blindness" versus the economic risk of "expense of the clinical trial" also indicated a positive tone.
The implications for health care purchasers and providers have yet to unfold, but pricing is likely to attract a premium if single episode cell therapies can offer the possibility of durable benefit or cure.
Robert Arceci, a paediatric cancer expert at Johns Hopkins, points out that in terms of total life-years saved, the benefit from curing paediatric cancer victims is roughly the same as curing adults with breast cancer.There is an obvious element of special pleading in such calculations.
Mailer and Reich never met (Reich died, in federal prison, in 1957), but Mailer constructed his own version of Reich's signature invention, the orgone accumulator: a box, in which the adept sits, that is supposed to attract something Reich called orgone radiation — a mysterious life force that, among other benefits, can cure cancer.
However for the more common metastatic malignancies chemotherapy treatment frequently brings clinical benefits but cure is not expected.
AEE high dose significantly decreased TG, LDL, TC and increased HDL index, but simvastatin has no significant increase in HDL, this confirmed that AEE more benefit on curing hyperlipidemia.
Patients referred to treatment efficacy by expressing hope that the treatment would have the desired benefit of curing the illness or getting rid of the virus from the body and restoring health: "I weighed whether I want to have hepatitis in me or at least try to get it out of my system.
