Couple crusades for FDA approval of new cancer drug
Hanson resident Philip McCartin is taking the fight for FDA approval of Herceptin to the streets, often wearing a neon-pink T-shirt bearing the massage, ‘FDA! Approve Her2 cancer drugs now!’ on his running routes in the area.
“I’m not anti-government, I’m not anti-business, I’m pro-patient,” he said. “We’re not giving up. I don’t care how big the bureaucracy is. This is just an injustice. It’s not right.”
McCartin met last week with representatives of senators John Kerry and Scott Brown and from U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch’s office to enlist their help with the accelerated approval of T-DM1, a new cancer drug doing wonders for his wife Lorraine Heike-McCartin. She was diagnosed with Stage IV Her2, one of the most aggressive breast cancers caused by a mutated gene first identified in the 1980s.
T-DM1 attaches chemotherapy onto the Herceptin drug, forming something like a “heat-seeking missile,” against only the mutated cells, with fewer side effects than some other oncology drugs.
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