In cancer clinics around the world, and in drug trials, myriad other side effects are showing up. Studies are finding that severe reactions occur nearly 20 percent of the time with certain drugs, and in more than half of patients when some drugs are used in combination.
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“We’ve heard about immunotherapy as God’s gift, the chosen elixir, the cure for cancer,” said [Dr. John Timmerman, an oncologist and immunotherapy researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles]. “We haven’t heard much about the collateral damage.”
Despite the warnings, physicians like Dr. Timmerman remain hugely supportive of drugs that are saving the lives of people who would otherwise die. Far better to cope with diabetes, hepatitis or arthritis, the thinking goes, than to die.
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