How to prescribe over state lines?

[TheresaM]

Hello all: I have a problem I hope someone can help with. I cannot get my general oncologist (the only doc available to me where I am) to prescribe xeloda/tykerb for me because it ceased to work on me before.

However, a stage IV breast cancer specialist/researcher in another state whom I respect much more and whose advice I have been following, thinks xeloda/tykerb are worth another look for me especially because I'm so near death (I am nearly maxed out on the amount of oxygen I'm taking in, will suffocate soon). These two drugs are the only two that ever produced a response in my cancer and xeloda is known to be helpful for lungs especially.

Problem is, my expert onc is not licensed to prescribe in my state. Is there any way to get around this in a legal way? Could she prescribe it to me in her state, as her patient, and then order it through a pharmacy network like procare pharmacies that could ship it to me in my state? Would that solve the licensing problem?

Thanks for any and all advice,
Theresa
PS I actually had a lot of xeloda/tykerb left over when I stopped using it before, and I gave it all away for free to other needy patients! Who would have thought I'd need it again for myself? : )