The Mission of the Abigail Alliance :

To help cancer patients and others with life threatening illnesses.

To educate the public on the need to have more expanded access and compassionate use programs for developmental cancer drugs and other developmental drugs for cancer patients and other patients that have run out of conventional treatment options.

Develop creative ways to help pharmaceutical companies do more expanded access and compassionate use without putting the burden on the companies. This could save thousands of lives a year.

Research current government policies and regulations to help insure that there are no Federal Government issues that are blocking wider access to developmental drugs.

Research and make sure current regulations are being followed so that cancer patients and other patients have acomplete listing of current available clinical trials.

Negotiate with pharmaceutical companies to add or increase expanded access and compassionate use of developmental cancer drugs to help cancer patients that have exhausted conventional treatments.

Help cancer patients who have exhausted conventional treatments for their cancer find clinical trials, expanded access programs and find compassionate use programs.

Help develop specific legislation that could help increase expanded access and compassionate use of developmental cancer drugs, and legislation that could help companies develop new drugs faster.

Work to develop ways to make sure more oncologists and other doctors refer patients to information about clinical trials, especially at NCI’s web sites clinicaltrials.gov and Cancer.gov.

When the Abigail Alliance has more funds, a future goal is to help pay transportation for poor cancer patients so they can travel to clinical trials.