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Article: FDA facing challenge on trial drugs: Terminally ill have a right to access, advocates say.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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Byline: Jonathan D. Rockoff
Mar. 1--WASHINGTON -- At the same time that many Americans complain the government isn't doing enough to protect them from unsafe drugs, advocates for terminally ill cancer patients assert that health officials do too much.
Dying patients who have run out of other options have a constitutional right to take unproven medicines, say cancer patients who are challenging the government's authority to prevent them from taking potentially promising drugs that are under development.
"Their only alternative is death," said Frank Burroughs, who has fought for expanded access since his 21-year-old daughter, Abigail, died while ...