Chapter 12: The FDA as a Barrier to Research Innovation

In this chapter Dr. Freireich stresses that cancer will only be cured by funding clinical research into cures for cancer and offers his personal belief that the population at large understands this. (He uses the example of AIDS activists, who were successfully organized and lobbied for effective treatments.) He talks about the role of the FDA, which he sees curtailing physicians\u27 ability to make progress by restricting the use of experimental drugs in dying patients. He sums up the affect of what he sees as bureaucratic conservatism: If there\u27s no drug, there\u27s no danger, and there\u27s no progress.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/1031/thumbnail.jp