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stubishlast Thursday at 8:16 AM0 repliesview on HN

Yes, you only hear about the initial breakthrough. The regular news doesn't report the trials unless things go spectacularly wrong. And you don't hear about the successes using the therapy on patients where traditional treatments didn't work. And you don't hear about the treatments successful enough that they replace the traditional treatments. But they are there, being used and saving lives. A family member's prostate cancer metastasized after 20 years of hormone therapy, they refused chemotherapy, and had their life saved by radioligand therapy, a treatment not available just months earlier. No side effects beyond a dry mouth, and now off the more debilitating hormone treatments.