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CareToLive Is Very Sad To Report that Member Richard J. Ripp Passed Away from Prostate Cancer on Friday, May 23, 2008 - NEVER RECEIVED PROVENGE!

May 28th, 2008 | Posted by CTL
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Read/Download Richard Ripp Rockville Gazette Ad richardrippgazettecolor.pdf

(click to enlarge) (available to print as a full page poster on the protest page)

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Richard was featured in our Rockville/ Bethesda / Chevy Chase Gazette Ad campaign in Week #6. We so appreciate his standing up to help shed light on the Provenge fiasco and do his small part to help raise awareness of the terrible decisions that are being made at the FDA. We will miss Richard very much. Our hearts go out to his family and friends for sharing Richard with us for a little while. He was truly a great American, who stood up for the things he believed in, right up until the end.

Richard Ripp’s funeral is being held Friday May 30, 2008. How fitting that we will get to remember him during our nationwide protests. Richard Ripps name needs to resonate from one Coast to the other as we express our extreme sorrow for him and the 30,000 men who are slated to die this year from prostate cancer while Provenge, an immunotherapy shown to be safe and effective, with 10 years of trials under it belt, along with an overwhelmingly favorable FDA Advisory Panel vote, lays and rots on the shelves, with no explanation or scientific reasoning from the FDA.

PLEASE HELP US GET PROVENGE TO OUR MEN NOW!

Please join us for our Nationwide Protest of the FDA On May 30th. See details here ctlnatlprotest9.pdf and also visit our rally page for additional details http://caretolive.com/rally/

Video of the 2007 Rally at the FDA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqAx7uZAS90

We have to continue doing everything we can to get Provenge to our men who are running out of hope and time. Please join with us in raising awareness for this very important issue and if you can, come out on May 30 to raise your voice to get Provenge Approved NOW!

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WHATS GOING ON

This Is An Emergency!

We rallied outside the FDA building in Rockville, Maryland on September 18th. Now there are buses riding around Rockville and Washington, D.C., further protesting the shenanigans that took place inside the FDA building, as well as outside.

The FDA has gotten caught up with Wall Street. While it is supposed to be busy with evaluating food and drugs, its employees just can't keep their eyes off the money. So that is how decisions are being made these days.
WE'LL BE BACK

These people traveled from all across the country to protest outside the FDA Building in Rockville, Maryland. The FDA has stopped a safe and effective treatment from getting to men who need it now. The treatment is called Provenge and it treats men who have late stage prostate cancer.

The FDA appointed a panel of experts to help it decide on the safety and efficacy of Provenge. That panel voted 17-0 that Provenge was safe. And it voted 13-4 that Provenge showed substantial evidence it worked. And yet the FDA delayed it. Now it could be a year, a year and a half or it could be three years. It could be forever.

These people will keeping coming back to Rockville and they hope others will join them until the courts, the FDA, Congress or somebody does something about this travesty.