What I will address is how can so called Doctors that fully understand and know first hand what this decease does to the human body and the suffering that these poor helpless patients have to endure daily, sell out every aspect of what their profession is supposed to stand up for under any condition. Do they fully understand what the term ” DO NO HARM ” means? One must understand that in this particular case at hand, is there are many so called Doctors that took part in this derailment of a promising vaccine that very well could extend or even cure this deadly decease for PC patients that are now left with very little hope, because of these so called Doctors criminal actions. I state criminal, because when one sells out a patients welfare for their own selfish personal gain, which in return causes continued suffering and even death, then it is criminal to do so, no matter how hard they have tried to confuse the true facts.

This is a proven safe vaccine and therefore should have been given an approval under the minimum conditions of being labeled for terminally ill PC patients and to have allowed them continued hope and the benefit of the possibility of extending their lives or even curing them of this deadly decease. The standard of care so to speak, would have only come after showing the true effects while maintaining hope for these poor patients. This is what would have been called using caution and at the same time, DOING NO HARM”. Every one of you so called doctors that was a part of this derailment of provenge, have brought shame to your medical profession, your family, your peers and humanity itself. I did not cap doctors anymore, because in my book, you are worse than a common thug and the title of ( Doctor )should be stripped forever, due to your outrages actions in this case at hand. For the continued majority of good and caring true Doctors out there, I commend you and your chosen profession in helping your patients and not lowering your standards as these so called doctors have done for their own personal gains. I only hope that some of the Good Doctors that are aware of this outrages situation will stand up and shame each and every one of these rouge so called doctors each and every chance that becomes available, because the truth is they have slapped you in the face without regard to your profession. Shame on them forever.

Lady Justice will prevail in the end , signed, Walk

Dr. Howard Scher
February, 2007
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Urology/ASCOProstate/tb/5142

Is the FDA still a science based agency or is it now all about money and politics?
Provenge is the rare cancer drug that works better than existing therapies and has virtually no side effects. The only reason it was not approved is that the drug belongs to a small independent biotech company, and entrenched powers within the FDA have been effectively controlled by big pharmaceutical companies working on competing products.

These companies want to sell their toxic and less effective chemotherapies to the same patients, so they lobby FDA docs like Howard Scher and Maha Hussein to insist on large trials meeting ever-higher statistical standards well beyong the legal FDA mandate. They do this by hiring Scher and Hussein as consultants or funding their research on big pharma drugs.

The policies that Scher and Hussain promote in the FDA then sets playing field that tilts in favor of big pharma, as small biotechs who don’t have the resources to run huge trials have to either stop product development or sell out cheaply to big pharma. So the FDA rapidly approves drugs with known serious side effects to treat large numbers of patients for chronic conditions when the drugs belong to big pharma (like Merck’s Vioxx of arthritis or GSK’s Avandia for diabetes), and yet won’t approve a true advance in cancer treatment for patients who have a life expectancy of less than 2 years.

That’s why Caretolive is so very important. The focus is for the individual patients and their own right to make decisions and choose how to live. Amazingly, for FDA in the case of Provenge the patients are last or not even in the equation at all. Testing has been done for years. It’s safe. Experts weighed in and the votes on the AC Panel was overwhelmingly in favor of approval. WHY was this expert panel disregarded? WHAT was Richard Pazdur even doing meddling about, passing notes to Maha Hussein, who conviently had her own letter leaked to the Cancer Letter echoing Scher and Flemming’s dissent from the panel of experts clearly dominant opinion.

And where is Andrew Von E? HOW and WHY has he let this corruption flourish under his new watch as head chief of FDA? Is he facilitating Pazdur’s iron fist rule and power mongering? There have been rumors about Von E possibly appointing Pazdur to a new saftey chief position. So, Pazdur leaks the ImClone information to some lawyer “mistakenly”, threatens walk-outs and such when his Ontology “club” doesn’t get what they want, and derails Provenge by obvious measures. Hmm, what a perfect candidate for a safety chief. All of these men dying from APC because they are denied their own right to choose drugs like Provenge, are they safe? Are they safe from possible mild, flu-like symptoms when they are dying? Is his concern for absolute statistical purity good reason to eliminate a novel drug that is safe and apparently increasing survival. Why not conditionally approve?

Why indeed. Lots of questions to be asked while the FDA discloses none of the answer. Corrupt FDA officals should have NO immunity from questioning their actions. They are supposed to serve the people not themselves.

May they reap what they sow.

We continue to hear publicity campaigns from various organizations that want donations to search for a cure for cancer. Searching for “the cure” is largely a joke, a ruse supported by the big pharmaceutical companies. The drug companies don’t want a cure. They want money. And the most money is in chemotherapy and cancer pain management. Imagine the hit pain management and disease management drug sales would have taken if the age of immunotherapy would have begun.

All of the big pharmaceutical companies are aware of Dendreon. In the weeks before the FDA decision, witness the Bristol Meyers head of research saying Provenge would never be approved. Bristol Meyers has a cancer treatment franchise. Dendreon can advance cancer treatment by miles, possibly curing many men of PC and eventually curing many people of cancer with its platform. Companies like Bristol Meyers and investors like Howard Scher do not want to see Dendreon succeed. Unfortunately, there are a lot of companies like Bristol Meyers and doctor-investors like Scher. Scher and others like him want Guinea Pigs for money. It doesn’t matter how many Guinea Pigs die if the eventual payout is a few billion to investors and pharma companies.

We continue to hear publicity campaigns from various organizations that want donations to search for a cure for cancer. Searching for “the cure” is largely a joke, a ruse supported by the big pharmaceutical companies. The drug companies don’t want a cure. They want money. And the most money is in chemotherapy and cancer pain management. Imagine the hit pain management and disease management drug sales would have taken if the age of immunotherapy would have begun.

All of the big pharmaceutical companies are aware of Dendreon. In the weeks before the FDA decision, witness the Bristol Meyers head of research saying Provenge would never be approved. Bristol Meyers has a cancer treatment franchise. Dendreon can advance cancer treatment by miles, possibly curing many men of PC and eventually curing many people of cancer with its platform. Companies like Bristol Meyers and investors like Howard Scher do not want to see Dendreon succeed. Unfortunately, there are a lot of companies like Bristol Meyers and doctor-investors like Scher.