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The FDA allows "compassionate use" exceptions for this type of thing and generally grants them. The point of the approval process (and the entire FDA) is to prevent charlatans peddling dangerous and ineffective therapies and drugs to desperate people for profit.

Which is what this article is about: you can have no choices, but here, pay us a ton of money for UnprovenDrug(TM)! It might work according to nobody but us.

You're making the classic misstep of assuming a Pascal's wager type situation - as though there's only ever 1 unproven option out there so you might as well, when in reality there's many and getting scammed out of all your money on one means you can't try others which actually might work.