Senate passes a “right to try” bill; Harm to patients comes next

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Patients for whom there are no existing treatments watch with desperation as a potentially helpful new drug spends years working its way from a lab bench, through clinical trials, and finally to the FDA, where reviewers consider it for approval.

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Kelly McBride Folkers
Research associate, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine
Lisa Kearns
Senior research associate, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine
Alison Bateman-House
Assistant professor in the Division, co-chair of NYU's Working Group on Compassionate Use and Pre-Approval Access.
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The University of California, San Francisco and global oncology communities mourn the death of Felix Y. Feng, MD, a radiation oncologist and a leading figure in genitourinary cancer research. A professor of radiation oncology, urology and medicine, and vice chair of translational research at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Feng died from cancer on Dec.10, 2024. He was 48.
The late Felix Feng, MD (center) with researchers Jonathan Chou, MD, PhD (left) and Lisa Chesner, PhD (right), in 2019.Photo by Noah BergerFelix Y. Feng, a genitourinary cancer research leader, died on Dec. 10, 2024. He was 48.This article is republished with permission by NRG Oncology.Dr. Feng was the former NRG Oncology Genitourinary Cancer Committee chair and an RTOG Foundation member. After years of dedicated and enthusiastic commitment to the NRG and previously the RTOG Genitourinary Cancer Committee, chairing or co-chairing 13 research protocols for NRG and RTOG, Dr. Feng was appointed committee chair in March 2018, following in the footsteps of Dr. Howard Sandler, his mentor. Dr. Feng was also a member of the RTOG Foundation Board of Directors.
Kelly McBride Folkers
Research associate, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine
Lisa Kearns
Senior research associate, Division of Medical Ethics, NYU School of Medicine
Alison Bateman-House
Assistant professor in the Division, co-chair of NYU's Working Group on Compassionate Use and Pre-Approval Access.

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