I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach
Why don&#x27;t we just have a schedule&#x2F;tier system?<p>Category A - approved by the FDA, basically what we have right now<p>Category B - approved by some other established regulatory body (EU). Comes with all the warnings, doctors can write it off-label, insurance companies may not cover it but doctors can ask for a variance<p>Category C - approved by some non-OECD body. Insurance companies under no obligation to cover<p>Category D - experimental, this is stuff maybe still only in animal models, but pharmacies can still order and dispense it<p>Category E - experimental and basically limited run from pharmaceutical companies. These essentially need to be tailor-made or produced by a GMP kilo lab. There are plenty of drugs in this category - I worked on them - and the intended recipients are entirely animals, QA, and regulatory agencies. But maybe if some crazy S.R. Hadden type (billionaire in Contact) wants to guinea pig themselves, let em.<p>The latter category also opens the door for custom therapies (gene&#x2F;mRNA) that you basically can&#x27;t test the active pharmaceutical ingredient for efficacy on.