[phil]

I apologise if you felt I was belittling your personal experience , i know your overall mission is to ease unnecessary suffering . remember i lost awife too, when chemos wer much more rudimentary than now. I agonized over our tx choices did we choose the best tx. ?, etc. in the ned i know we did the best we could w/ what we had at the time. This reminds me of meeting an FDA official , who said " I havent been thru what your wife has, i had prostate cancer txed yrs ago ". I said, " If you have ever sat in an oncologists office, and saw that glowing spot on a scan " then you have been where we are at " But, I stand by my comments about This FDA and I stand by my feed back on some of your statements about percieved shortcomings in drugs like herc., t dm-1, and others . vs the overall survival rate without these drugs .