How Washington Is Nixing a Cancer Cure
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the main organization of cancer doctors, agrees.
The response of CMS officials to all of this is puzzling. The spokesman for CMS, Jeff Nelligan, tried to get the bean counters there to answer my questions. But the official response is just a repetition of the claim that RIT is "diagnostic."
For an agency that spends more than a billion dollars a day, this may just be business as usual. Or perhaps public pressure can force powerful bureaucrats to feel ashamed of pulling the plug on their fellow Americans, desperately ill with cancer.
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Posted By: ratcher @ 11/22/2007 12:12:00 PM
Comment: In addition to signing the petition for CMS, please also write to your member of the House of Representatives and Senators to ask them to address this horrifying situation with legislation that requires CMS to reimburse for this life saving treatment.
Robert Atcher
President-elect, Society of Nuclear Medicine
Posted By: ratcher @ 11/22/2007 12:09:33 PM
Comment: In addition to signing the petition at the lymphoma website, send a letter to your Representative and Senators demanding that they pass legislation to address this horrifying situation.
Robert Atcher
President-Elect
Society of Nuclear Medicine
Posted By: Echohammer419 @ 11/21/2007 1:56:08 PM
Comment: Here's an alternative solution. visit http://www.lymphomation.org/CMS-endorse-RIT.htm
Sign this petition. It will be delivered to the CMS. 3000 people have signed it so far. There is absolutely no excuse not to sign this.
Mr. Alter... thank you so much for your article. it's the exact fuel that this fire needs to apply that "heat" as another commentor mentioned.