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al from Canada · 11-20-2005, 11:12 PM

Eric,

That's amazing stuff...thank you very much! I just wish more of these promising tidbits would hurry-up and happen. It seems so frustrating to so many of us to sit on the sidelines as we wait and wait and wait.....just like watching paint dry! I often wonder if, as a group, (meaning all cancer patients), we can't apply pressure to the FDA to create a new level of clinical trial or testing to fast-track development. There are so many who would gladly anti-up just to give it one last shot. Families "pull the plug" all the time where all hope for a loved one is lost. Why not give the terminally ill, perhaps meaning 3 months to go with nothing left but prayer, the opportunity to hang-on to a bit more hope and also to make their final contribution to "the cause"?
I have always thought that the construction industry, which I'm involved in, is the most resistant to change, having changed very little in the last 50 years. Meanwhile, our drug development program appears to be moving at light-speed along with the starship Enterprise but the regulatory delivery agent, (FDA) is sitting on a city block's worth of reports and trying to follow driving a donkey cart. Demonstrations and riots have happened for much less.
Sorry about the rant Eric, Great article!
Al

11-20-2005, 11:12 PM	#2
al from Canada Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 722	Eric, That's amazing stuff...thank you very much! I just wish more of these promising tidbits would hurry-up and happen. It seems so frustrating to so many of us to sit on the sidelines as we wait and wait and wait.....just like watching paint dry! I often wonder if, as a group, (meaning all cancer patients), we can't apply pressure to the FDA to create a new level of clinical trial or testing to fast-track development. There are so many who would gladly anti-up just to give it one last shot. Families "pull the plug" all the time where all hope for a loved one is lost. Why not give the terminally ill, perhaps meaning 3 months to go with nothing left but prayer, the opportunity to hang-on to a bit more hope and also to make their final contribution to "the cause"? I have always thought that the construction industry, which I'm involved in, is the most resistant to change, having changed very little in the last 50 years. Meanwhile, our drug development program appears to be moving at light-speed along with the starship Enterprise but the regulatory delivery agent, (FDA) is sitting on a city block's worth of reports and trying to follow driving a donkey cart. Demonstrations and riots have happened for much less. Sorry about the rant Eric, Great article! Al __________________ Primary care-giver to and advocate for Linda, who passed away April 27, 2006.