Comments on: ASCO Tells CMS It Should Cover Provenge http://caretolive.com/2010-08-14/asco-tells-cms-it-should-cover-provenge/ CareToLive | Help Men With Late Stage Prostate Cancer | Provenge Now! Fri, 18 May 2012 07:48:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Is a Cure in Sight?Melanoma. . Jim Breitfeller | Melanoma Blog http://caretolive.com/2010-08-14/asco-tells-cms-it-should-cover-provenge/#comment-17335 Is a Cure in Sight?Melanoma. . Jim Breitfeller | Melanoma Blog Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:32:50 +0000 http://caretolive.com/2010-08-14/asco-tells-cms-it-should-cover-provenge/#comment-17335 [...] ASCO Tells CMS It Should Cover Provenge | CareToLive [...] […] ASCO Tells CMS It Should Cover Provenge | CareToLive […]

]]> By: Bob Sanders http://caretolive.com/2010-08-14/asco-tells-cms-it-should-cover-provenge/#comment-17241 Bob Sanders Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:26:05 +0000 http://caretolive.com/2010-08-14/asco-tells-cms-it-should-cover-provenge/#comment-17241 The ASCO letter was good and urged withdrawal of the NCS, but this was right on point: http://www.accc-cancer.org/advocacy/pdf/2010_Comments_NCAProstate.pdf The ASCO letter was good and urged withdrawal of the NCS, but this was right on point:

http://www.accc-cancer.org/advocacy/pdf/2010_Comments_NCAProstate.pdf

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]]> By: Bob Sanders http://caretolive.com/2010-08-14/asco-tells-cms-it-should-cover-provenge/#comment-17229 Bob Sanders Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:39:08 +0000 http://caretolive.com/2010-08-14/asco-tells-cms-it-should-cover-provenge/#comment-17229 Why haven't you guys started a petition yet for immediate CMS coverage. Am I the only one who thinks the one year delay is unethical? I am afraid that this delay will cost lives and cause individuals to suffer needlessly. CMS covers chemo, which has less of a survival advantage and far more side effects and ends up costing the patient more for a far worse quality of life. I don"t know why there isn't more public outrage or Congressional action regarding this. Where is the outrage for the administration not supporting revolutionary cutting edge treatments creating American jobs that lead to quality of life increases. It is one thing to initiate a NCD for a treatment after several years on the market and data questions effectiveness, but to initiate a NCD before a first of its kind American-made cancer vaccine has had any time to show real data after FDA approval (after showing great efficacy during the FDA trials, with minimal side effects) is unconscionable - I can't think of anything worse to chill medical breakthroughs, quality of life increases for the American population, as well as investments by American biotechs. Sorry for the rant, but am I the only one this concerned about CMS inquiry? Even if the ultimate result is full approval, the delay does enough damage to the American biotech industry and investment in cutting edge American companies (not to mention costing lives) that it is unethical. Why haven’t you guys started a petition yet for immediate CMS coverage. Am I the only one who thinks the one year delay is unethical? I am afraid that this delay will cost lives and cause individuals to suffer needlessly. CMS covers chemo, which has less of a survival advantage and far more side effects and ends up costing the patient more for a far worse quality of life. I don”t know why there isn’t more public outrage or Congressional action regarding this. Where is the outrage for the administration not supporting revolutionary cutting edge treatments creating American jobs that lead to quality of life increases. It is one thing to initiate a NCD for a treatment after several years on the market and data questions effectiveness, but to initiate a NCD before a first of its kind American-made cancer vaccine has had any time to show real data after FDA approval (after showing great efficacy during the FDA trials, with minimal side effects) is unconscionable - I can’t think of anything worse to chill medical breakthroughs, quality of life increases for the American population, as well as investments by American biotechs. Sorry for the rant, but am I the only one this concerned about CMS inquiry? Even if the ultimate result is full approval, the delay does enough damage to the American biotech industry and investment in cutting edge American companies (not to mention costing lives) that it is unethical.

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