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Posts Tagged ‘Brad Wick’
Provenge is approved!
- Provenge has been approved! Thank you to all who helped achieve this important milestone for cancer patients.
LATEST POSTS
- 02/06/2012 - Great Provenge News Released At ASCO
- 11/27/2011 - Care To Live Board Member Ted Girgus Dies of Prostate Cancer
- 09/06/2011 - Care To Live Update on SEC OIG Investigation into April 28, 2009 Dendreon Bear Raid
- 07/13/2011 - 3 Minute Video Explaining Provenge Treatment
- 06/20/2011 - Abigail Alliance Plans FDA PROTEST June 28
- 06/09/2011 - RIP Charles A. Reinwald — Cancer Cure Coalition Founder
- 04/29/2011 - Care To Live Submits Moment of Silence to CMS
- 04/28/2011 - HHS Desperately Needs Transparency Lessons From CMS
- 04/23/2011 - Please Post for Provenge!
- 04/19/2011 - Another Interim Provenge Prostate Cancer Immunotherapy CMS FOIA Response
MOST POPULAR
- Setting the Record Straight
- Provenge Is Approved But The Lies Continue
- Provenge Works & Costs the Same as Chemo & Comments by Bishop
- The Bloodshed, Bogus Threats, Birth Defects, Bashers Cover Letter
- PROVENGE WILL BE COVERED BY MEDICARE
- CareToLive sends a Freedom of Information Request to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- ASCO Tells CMS It Should Cover Provenge
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are requesting comments.
- Dr. Snuffy Myers Advocates For Provenge Treatment
- Senators Specter and Kerry - CMS Has Some 'Splaining To Do
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.
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.
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.
Care To Live Regrets the Passing of Howard C. of Prostate Cancer
May 1st, 2009 | Posted by Rory KearneyHoward C. and John Fish were the two late stage prostate cancer patients who gave Care To Live Attorney Kerry Donahue, standing to file our lawsuit against the FDA in Federal Court in Ohio, two years ago. Had Howard and John been able to receive Provenge when it should have been approved, they might still be with us today.
“Attached hereto as “Exhibit E”, is the signed letter by Howard CXXXXX who is an AIPC patient in Ohio who seeks Provenge now. Howard is very ill and in late stage of prostate cancer. He hopes that if he can’t get Provenge in time to help him that he can at least help others to receive it. John Fish (letter attached to Plt mot. for inj, exhibit H), also from Ohio is a late stage cancer patient who wants Provenge now.”
Our dysfunctional FDA coupled with a corrupt cast of characters, needs to be overhauled and made to serve the public by bringing better, safer, more humane treatments, like Provenge, on the market without years of delay.
The system is so flawed that after we filed more than a dozen motions fighting to have the corrupt decision addressed, the FDA, defended by the Department of Justice, paid for with our tax dollars, received a ruling by the Federal Court saying that since the decision is not final, as the Provenge application is still pending, the case is not ripe to be heard.
Tell Howard C. and John Fish and Stephen Study, and the Wicks, and the 60,000 other men who have gone on to die from prostate cancer during this unjust approval delay, that the decision by the FDA was not final.
With the unambiguous and robust survival results that were just shown in the THIRD confirmatory phase 3 trial, the FDA needs to immediately make Provenge available to the thousands of the men who would be eligible to be treated with the Provenge immunotherapy, in order to empower them to fight for their lives.
Every man should have the same chance Eduardo Garcia had. He had given up on life when his daughter enrolled him in the Provenge trials 8 years ago, and after 3 treatments in a doctors office, he crawled out of bed and is alive and well.
Howard provided a great service to mankind by stepping forward to say that men with prostate cancer matter. All the Care To Live Members and Supporters hearts and prayers go out to Howard and his family.
Grow a heart FDA. You have delayed this long enough. There is no excuse to keep men waiting another year while you follow your draconian protocol. There can be no doubt that it works. Now let’s get it to the men today!
Answer our CareToLive Citizens’ Petition that has been languishing in your office for almost 2 years and Approve Provenge NOW!
Read and Leave Comments on our FDA CareToLive Citizens’ Petition Request to Reconsider the Failure to Approve Provenge >>
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We need everybody and be the voice that Howard no longer has, and to contact the FDA, Congress, and the Press in the link below.
Operation Accelerate Approval >>http://caretolive.com/2009-04-28/operation-accelerate-approval-update/
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Tags: Brad Wick, Dendreon, Eduardo Garcia, FDA, Howard C., Immunotherapy, John Fish, Kerry Donahue, Prostate Cancer, provenge, Stephen Study
Posted in The Cause, The Dysfunctional FDA, The Lawsuit | 1 Comment »