I had access to the info the hospitals personnel provided me with. Tom Quite frankly, there is no choice as to clinical trials. There is not enough of a database to consider the treatment of our children as standard. Just about all pediatric cancer protocols are considered investigational. Look at it this way, there are hundreds of thousands of lung, breast and prostate cancers every year.
Treatment is pretty standard.
There are just several thousand cases of childhood ALL in North America. The research base is not sufficient to definitely state this is the only treatment protocol. Look hard at the protocols. There is nothing radically different in the treatments. The changes we see today are incremental and evolutionary, not revolutionary.