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In a first, the Food and Drug Administration recently gave fast-track
approval for a cancer drug for children to begin selling even before testing in
adults is finished. The drug, Clolar, is to treat relapsed leukemia. FDA's drug
chief, Dr. Janet Woodcock, says she's open to speeding through more child-first
cancer treatments whenever those smallest patients have no good
options.
A stark new report from the influential Institute of Medicine urges government and drug makers to cut children's waiting time for access to experimental therapies ---- and for the NCI to actually develop those medicines if industry sees too little profit to do so. A "near absence" of pediatric cancer drug research "threatens to halt the progress in childhood cancer treatment achieved during the past four decades," the report warns. New! Sign up for local CML support group meetings in your local community at http://cml.meetup.com Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com CML (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Support List) --------------------------------- Part Of CMLHope.Com An International Community Of CML Patients For more information: http://cmlhope.com Post Message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To No Mail/Web: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CML Group Web Site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML Yahoo! Groups Links
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