Can anything be done to take advantage of this other than “sit and wait for years while Medical Science does more research”?
This mostly depends on your attribute to risk and responsibility when things go wrong. No doctor is going to tell you “yeah, sure, try it out now” because that would open them up to significant risk and responsibility; if you tell your mom to try this and it doesn’t work out, then you’re taking on some risk and responsibility. She may not be interested in doing anything riskier than what’s been verified by medical science, and talking it over with her is the first step.
The next step is to ask her doctor about trials for this. It may be possible to be involved in human trials, though there is probably waiting involved.
Self-medication is possible. It seems unlikely that a doctor will help you figure out a correct dose, but it’s worth asking. In either event, you only have to do it once, and so it may be worth doing the paper-dive and finding the relevant textbooks to borrow (you’ll probably only need to read a few sections). If internal application is necessary, you’ll probably need to purchase the active ingredient directly. If you do decide to self-medicate, talk to your doctor about it. That’ll help prevent doing anything dangerous or any potentially foreseeable interactions between medications.
This mostly depends on your attribute to risk and responsibility when things go wrong. No doctor is going to tell you “yeah, sure, try it out now” because that would open them up to significant risk and responsibility; if you tell your mom to try this and it doesn’t work out, then you’re taking on some risk and responsibility. She may not be interested in doing anything riskier than what’s been verified by medical science, and talking it over with her is the first step.
The next step is to ask her doctor about trials for this. It may be possible to be involved in human trials, though there is probably waiting involved.
Self-medication is possible. It seems unlikely that a doctor will help you figure out a correct dose, but it’s worth asking. In either event, you only have to do it once, and so it may be worth doing the paper-dive and finding the relevant textbooks to borrow (you’ll probably only need to read a few sections). If internal application is necessary, you’ll probably need to purchase the active ingredient directly. If you do decide to self-medicate, talk to your doctor about it. That’ll help prevent doing anything dangerous or any potentially foreseeable interactions between medications.