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Old 02-21-2012, 08:32 AM   #1
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Foreign Shipments to Ease Shortage of 2 Cancer Drugs

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/he...s.html?_r=1&hp

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Old 02-22-2012, 05:06 PM   #2
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Re: Foreign Shipments to Ease Shortage of 2 Cancer Drugs

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The generic drug industry tired of waiting for Congress to fully finance the F.D.A.’s generic drug office and this year proposed providing the agency with $299 million in annual fees to finance the review process.
Take the money..no strings attached..get it done.
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Old 02-22-2012, 06:15 PM   #3
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Re: Foreign Shipments to Ease Shortage of 2 Cancer Drugs

Or, rearrange the FDA's priorities so they can allocate their resources to these types of (important!) issues instead of regulating things they specifically didn't regulate in the past (supplements, etc.)

Oops...political...sorry, my bad
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9/2004 Diag: Stage IV extensive liver mets (!) ER/PR- Her2+++
10/04-3/05 Weekly Taxol/Carboplatin/Herceptin , complete response!
04/05 - 4/07 Herception every 3 wks, Continue NED
04/07 - recurrence to liver - 2 spots, starting tykerb/avastin trial
06/07 8/07 10/07 Scans show stable, continue on Tykerb/Avastin
01/08 Progression in liver
02/08 Begin (TDM1) trial
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02/10 Continue NED. 5/10 9/10 Scans NED 10/10 Scans NED
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