Question:
When are the companies reposible for testing new treatments going to wise
up?
When new techniques or drugs become available they have to undergo up to
several years of 'clinical trials'. Why can't they ask terminal patients if
they would
undergo treatment to prove out the new technoligies?
My cancer is totally uncurable from the first signs last year, if some drug
company
had come to me and offered the trials I would have jumped at the chance.
After
all the worst that can possibly happen is that I may die earlier ( I have
been told that I
currently only have a few weeks left..so no good now! )
Surely such programs could only serve to find cures much quicker, even if it
did not
cure the person on the program it may help others.
Answer:
They can and they do. But before they can dispense their
treatment they must have the permission of the FDA in the form of
an IND if it's a drug that has never been tested previously. To
obtain that permission, they must submit adequate documentation
and testing results to convince the FDA that their proposed
treatment can be expected to be reasonably safe and that it may
work in human beings.
>My cancer is totally uncurable from the first signs last year, if some drug
>company
>had come to me and offered the trials I would have jumped at the chance.
If you weren't approached you were probably being treated at a
facility that doesn't participate in trials, your doctor didn't
bother to consider trials for you, your insurance wouldn't cover
trial expenses and your doctor knew that, or you were otherwise
ineligible for the available trials for some reason. Many trials
go wanting for additional patient particpation.
