With our deepest condolences we mourn the loss from prostate cancer, June 2, 2011 at 85 years of age, of one of Care To Live’s fiercest warriors during our battle for Provenge’s approval.  We never did, nor could we, thank him enough for all his help. Sometimes with death there is a revisiting of the person, and we welcome this opportunity to bring you Charles A. Reinwald the man, and his unique and incredible cancer foundation, with its focus on healing cancer, both medically and holistically.

A link to his website has always been right up there, on the top of our home page. Please add it to your ‘to do’ list. If you are a cancer patient, the Cancer Cure Coalition should be your first line of defense.

http://www.cancercurecoalition.org

Cancer Cure Coalition Mission Statement

http://www.cancercurecoalition.org/mission.html

Charles A Reinwald Biography

http://www.cancercurecoalition.org/board.html

Charles became a member of Care To Live early on. He was a great advocate of strengthening the immune system through diet and lifestyle changes, as well as medicine. Throughout the years Charles offered us advice, and support. He was fighting many wars, on many cancer fronts, but was never too tired to write one more letter or one more article, or to offer words of encouragement in our darkest hours, when we needed them most.

Charles was a rarity today. A true patient advocate, not beholden to any corporate or financial conflicts of interests.  He was not an investor in Dendreon which frustrated the likes of those reporters whose deviant agendas were to erroneously portray Provenge as ineffectual, such as Matthew Herper of Forbes Magazine.

A brilliant man, he strove to understand health and wellness better, utiliizing his vast talents to educate and share what he learned with others. That is what made him truly stand out from the pack.

Care to Live literally stood shoulder to shoulder with Charles at our Rockville, Maryland FDA protest on September 18, 2007. He was one of our keynote speakers.

Charles A. Reinwald lives on in the families who will receive Provenge, those patient advocate and those with cancer whose lives he touched directly, his wife, his children, several of whom attended our Provenge 10 city rally in Cleveland in 2008, his grandchildren, and through his wonderful Cancer Cure Coalition Foundation.

I strongly urge people to send donations to:

The Cancer Cure Coalition
305 Beach Road, Suite 204
Tequesta, FL 33469

Telephone: (561) 747-2127

a 501 (C) (3) tax exempt charitable organization. Your donations are tax deductible pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.

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In February 2008 Mr. Reinwald took the FDA to task in this press release.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/02/21/idUS136546+21-Feb-2008+PRN20080221

Cancer Cure Coalition Proposes Major Changes at the FDA

Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:45am EST

PALMS BEACH GARDENS, Fla., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Flawed policies and bad

decisions at the FDA have contributed to an escalation of the cost of clinical

trials which now take an average of one billion dollars and require 10 years

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Ted posed with 3 of his 5 sons on Father’s Day 2007. He hopes he can spend a few more Father’s Days with them. But he needs help. Ted is suffering from late stage prostate cancer. Ted is seeking a Provenge, a safe and effective Immunotherapy voted overwhelmingly safe by an FDA Advisory Panel of experts. The FDA won’t let him have it, because of some “leaked” letters written by some severely conflicted doctors, one of whom is a scientific advisor for Proquest Investments and who has a stake in the competition. Ted has already undergone brachytherapy where radioactive seeds were implanted in his testicles to no avail, and he is currently undergoing horomone therapy. His cancer has metastacized outside of his protate gland and into his vertebrae. He refuses to take the only option open to him now, a chemotherapy, which is so toxic that most men refuse to take it. It would destroy whatever quality of life he has left. Please join us in helping Ted get access to Provenge before it is too late.

Hear Ted in his own words:

Prostate Cancer: Fighting the FDA for your Life — Andrew Schorr’s Patient Power, HealthRadio.net 8/22/2007

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