Opinion: I’m the ideal person to support right to try. But I can’t — it’s a disaster in the making
We don't need a new right-to-try law with iffy, or nonexistent, financial, legal and medical protection for patients. We already have one that works.
During his first State of the Union address, President Trump urged Congress to aimed at giving terminally ill patients access to experimental drugs. As an individual with terminal cancer and a former biotechnology industry executive, I know that the “right to try” isn’t merely a theoretical concept. And while I can relate to patients’ desperate hopes and desires to try new therapeutic approaches, I believe that passage of the federal would be a disaster.
