Comment by HWR_14

Patients who are near the palliative-stage can try many drugs in the FDA approval process. The doctor has to get "permission", but that is granted over 99% of the time. IIRC, it mostly involves making sure the doctor has read up on the research, believes it is necessary to save the patient's life, and agrees to report back on the treatment to the FDA.

If there really is a treatment that is significantly better than current treatments, have your doctors talked to you about this? It was codified into law about a decade ago, but that's not so new that they shouldn't be aware of the program.