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He’s saying treatment so someone lives another week is qualitatively different from treatment so someone lives long enough to die of something else.
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Yes, I get that. But actually designing experiments that measures the latter case using mice is extremely difficult and probably impossible. Especially because you are designing these experiments in order to see how these cures might work on humans.
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