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Our project then is to create the best legislation possible to help Patients get a fighting chance, once all accepted treatments have been attempted. Either through A

California State Proposition,

Federal legislation, or State

 legislation we believe that, as

 proposed, this will be a

 win/win situation for all.

We introduce you to the Concept,

    Give Patients a

 FightingChance Act.

       Goals

1)When facing terminal disease and when no exsisting treatment has offered success, leave the decision making solely between research, the patient, and his Doctor. The FDA or a California State agency's role should simply be to insure that some guidelines are met, help choose which research institutions merit such a high moral mandate, and that information is freely passed amounst researchers. Researchers to be held harmless and given broad latitude as long as they are using a tx that they feel offers the best chance of curative potential under the dire circumstance of near death situations.

2) Place Criteria and process to clarify who, when, and where Patients  can participate in research oriented, last ditch life saving efforts.

3) Establish criteria and process in a way that clearly  and substantially lowers the costs for pharmacuetical researchers developing life saving treatments. Rewarding those pharmacuetical companies that invest more in research than advertising could also be a goal. Maybe by giving them some form of tax credit we can incourage more developement and less TV comercials promoting a product. In today's world of internet savy health consumers, the product can do the talking. Not the sales team. This is especially so with life saving treatments.

4) Esablish criteria and process in such a way that insurance  companies have no financial obligation for treatments. Finances to be between Patients and Research doctors.

5) Establish criteria and process in such a way that current clinical Trials are not affected adversly. Indeed, these changes, as proposed, should only increase the success of clinical trials by getting developing stratagies into patients much quicker  than ever before. Clinical trials that follow will have better data such that they can be more successful than history has ever seen.

6)Establish criteria and process that insures complete assurance of informed consent. Patients need to know, understand, and accept that the odds of success of new treatments are usually not favorable. 

7) Establish Criteria and process for researchers to attain informed consent, allow a reasonable (under the circumstances) waiting period to weed out impulsive decision making, and that thorough and complete diagnostics are done to that patient before tx, during tx, and after tx to insure that as much Pharmacological  data and dynamics of new treatment are understood. On a personal note, If I'm potentially giving the last couple months of my life for a possible cure of my disease, my research team has  a high moral obligation to insure that those last two months of my life were given to good cause for those who follow. That means extremely meticulous documentation of disease, metabolism, and physiology of Patient though out the treatment process.