Ahava cannot get treatment now. Because of the medicine she took before. And because of their obstinance in breaking their contract with their patient.
In the words of Joshua Strahl, who put it so well:
Dear Tesaro Pharmaceuticals, you are in business to find ways to save lives.That's noble.And you are conducting a blind test (drug vs. placebo) to show your drug's efficacy. That's scientific methodology.Part of your contract with the patient undergoing the clinical trial is that if it becomes medically necessary you will reveal to the doctors if the patient was receiving your drug or a placebo.That's human.But, here my friend and neighbor Ahava Emunah Lange is Patient 1, and the drug that she is taking in your trial is not working. Her Ovarian Cancer has returned.Now, if she was on your real drug then her oncologists would know that that chemical is not working for her and they would switch her to a different drug. BUT, if she was on the placebo, then her oncologists would try the chemical that she was supposedly taking during the trial. Releasing this information to her doctors does not invalidate the trials results - we know that she did not react to whatever she was taking. Either the chemical didn't work or the placebo didn't work for her. If her doctors are not informed they cannot move ahead with her treatment, and my friend will die.So, your scientific methodology has been preserved.The question remains: are you in the business of saving lives?Will you honor your commitments to a human?Will you do the noble thing here?We hope that you will, because we are passionate about saving our friend Ahava.There is a petition to sign to try to pressure Tesaro Pharmaceuticals to release the information to Ahava's doctors, as they are contractually obligated to. If the doctors do not get this information, Ahava will not be able to receive any treatment and will die.
Please sign and share the petition
Ahava wrote a bit about it herself, including showing the clause in the contract in which they commit to giving the information should it be medically necessary...
If you are in a position to help somehow, please do. If not, please share. Maybe someone who reads it from my share or your share or by someone who shared it after seeing it from you, will be the person who can have some influence on the matter. Maybe a massive amount of public posts about this will shame them into releasing the information they contractually agreed to release!
This is a matter of life or death.
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