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> Is your disease uncommon?

Estimated at 2-3% of the world population, so 100M+ people.




So is the treatment something highly unusual?

I am sorry to be prying such information out of you, but things with such a cost label tend to be very high-tech (e.g. tumor-invading lymphocytes etc. that need to be cultivated for each patient separately, which cannot possibly be cheap).


It's a monoclonal antibody.

I suspect it'll look cheap in comparison to life extension treatments.


That's because monoclonal antibodies are targeted to a very specific protein. Polyclonal antibodies which can be used more generally are much cheaper. You're paying for the purity, not the substance.




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