How Washington Is Nixing a Cancer Cure

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edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer
How Washington Is Nixing a Cancer Cure
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  • saluki
    saluki Member Posts: 2,287
    edited November 2007
    How Washington Is Nixing a Cancer Cure
    By Jonathan Alter
    Newsweek Web Exclusive
    Updated: 6:12 PM ET Nov 13, 2007

    What if they found a cure for a cancer that afflicts half a million people, but a combination of stupid bureaucrats and greedy doctors kept patients from getting it?

    It's the kind of scenario that seems like the province of conspiracy theorists or alternative-medicine wackos—but is actually happening right now with a proven treatment for certain common types of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, the sixth-most frequently occurring cancer in the United States.

    I'm a bit biased on this one, though the treatment in question is not yet relevant to the rare subtype of lymphoma (mantle cell lymphoma) that I had in 2004. But even if I weren't in the lymphoma family, I would still be outraged by this situation. You can count the number of truly successful cancer treatments on one hand, and one of them is about to disappear.

    If there's any justice, heads will roll at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) over it. At a minimum, officials there should be facing some hellacious congressional hearings to force them to reverse a Nov. 1 "final ruling" that could doom this life-saver. Ted Kennedy should schedule hearings now.

    Here is the rest of the article

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/70301

    Today Lymphoma---tommorow us---So much for think pink


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  • Caseysmom
    Caseysmom Member Posts: 507
    edited November 2007

    saluki:

    Thanks for posting informative article. Now for me on my soap box:

    Hopefully Ted Kennedy did the right thing and call a congressional hearing if not shame on him.  You can bet if any congressman/women or senators family members needed this type of treatment head would roll at CMS.  Thanks for letting me stand on my soap box and vent.

    Laura

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  • Sierra
    Sierra Member Posts: 1,638
    edited November 2007





    Hi Susie:



    Thanks for this

    and I will read the link

    at the library











    Sierra

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