They can get rid of the FDA! Then they can start asking advice from alternative medicine practitioners about CURING cancer naturally instead of subjecting poor cancer sufferrers to chemo therapywhich often does more harm than good. Let you doctors read books like “Cures THEY don´t want you to know about” etc. and prosecute FDA thugs that block knowledge about cures simply to protect the big drug companies.

I am alive thanks to Velcade from Mellinium Corporation, an orphan drug put on the fast track by FDA. Velcade effectively targets multiple myeloma, a blood and bone cancer that kills ten to twenty thousand persons per year in the United States. Prior drugs were not working on my aggressive myeloma. Velcade happened to become commercially available just one month before I needed it. Fate? God? Well, those are unanswerable questions. But FDA and a pharmaceutical company were, indeed, the saviors.

How to reduce cancer deaths? More funding and staffing at FDA, creatively expediting the processing of approvals of new compounds while not increasing risk.

FDA can’t “go away” as some would suggest. One must have a quality-control agent in the end-to-end process to ensure that these very potent drugs are safe. Companies might, for the sake of profit and speed, shortcut quality without the stringent requirements of the FDA. This does not mean that FDA could not be improved. So, a important activity would be to look into how the FDA could be improved. How about government officials and a public forum getting together to think outside the box?

Give FDA more staff to do what it does well. Make it easier for companies to research and deliver new cancer-fighting, life-saving drugs.