Did you all read up on the drug Tarceva? This Oregon lady is the walking dead and this medicine only prolongs her death by a few months at best.

Mr. Compassionate over here would probably just suggest the assisted suicide option........

"Tarceva met its primary endpoint of improving overall survival (hazard ratio = 0.73). In addition to demonstrating a 42 percent improvement in median survival (6.7 versus 4.7 months), 31.2 percent of patients receiving Tarceva in the study were alive after one year versus 21.5 percent in the placebo arm. Tarceva also met all secondary endpoints of the trial, including delaying time to symptom deterioration, improving progression-free survival, and increasing tumor response rate."

I don't like those odds.......

Gotta love what the drug has done to the test subjects:

There have been infrequent reports of serious Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)-like events, including fatalities, in patients receiving Tarceva for treatment of NSCLC, pancreatic cancer or other advanced solid tumors.
Cases of hepatic failure, hepatorenal syndrome, acute renal failure (all including fatalities), and renal insufficiency have been reported during use of Tarceva.
Gastrointestinal perforation (including fatalities) has been reported in patients receiving Tarceva.
Bullous, blistering and exfoliative skin conditions have been reported including cases suggestive of Stevens-Johnson syndrome/toxic epidermal necrolysis, which in some cases were fatal.
In the pancreatic cancer trial, other serious adverse reactions associated with Tarceva plus gemcitabine and which may have included fatalities, were myocardial infarction/ischemia, cerebrovascular accident and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia with thrombocytopenia.

Ouch!!!!!

This drug will NOT save her life. Only prolongs that pain, suffering, and expenses out a couple more months at best. Should healthcare cover that? At some point, it's no longer "health care". This lady is past that point.