Question 2009

1.Does the patient with non-small cell lung cancer w/brain mets meet medical necessity for the proposed chemotherapy of Cisplatin, Gemzar, Erbitux?
2.Is this treatment recommended or ordered by a Physican..... ?
3.Is it it consistent with patient's condition or accepted standards of medical practice?
4.Is it medically proven to be the most effective....?
5.Is it mainly for convenience?
6.Is it primarily for research purposes?
7.Is it the most appropriate level of services...?
8.Does this treatment or procedure constitute accepted medical practice...?
9.Is it lawfully marketed with the approval of the FDA....?
10.Was informed consent utilized or procedure reviewed by IRB?
11.Does Federal Law require such approval?
12. Does reliable evidence show that the drug.... is the subject on ongoing phase I or II clinical trials or is the research...arm of a phase III trial?
13.Does the reliable evidence show that the prevailing opinion among exerts reagrding the drug... that farther studies or trials are required...?