Thanks to many people working behind the scenes, Care To Live is able to monitor some of the formal investigations being pursued by the Federal government and others regarding the questionable actions taken against Dendreon since 2005. It is CTL’s position that some of the miscreants involved in the 2007 sabotage of the Provenge approval process are still keeping Dendreon on the ropes to this day.

Had Provenge been approved conditionally and humanely, as it should have been in May 2007—with a post-approval phase IV trial performed— it would have become, as it should be, the standard of care for end stage prostate cancer. Instead, approval was delayed three (3) years, with the concomitant loss of 100,000 lives, many of which could have been extended through the use of Provenge.

Despite the nearly insurmountable barriers placed in its path by Wall Street, together with corruption in the FDA approval process that has been well documented in the literature through the efforts of Care To Live and our many supporters (see, for example, the seminal piece by Mark Mitchell, Michael Milken and Dendreon* [ http://www.deepcapture.com/wp-content/uploads/story-of-dendreon.pdf ], Provenge has become the first and so far, only immunotherapy for cancer that the FDA has ever approved, making medical history for the good of all people.

Capping the egregious events that marked the Provenge Advisory Committee (AC) Meeting of March 29, 2007, and the events that followed—including the three letters to Dr. von Eschenbach written by Drs. Howard Scher and Maha Hussain (both of whom served as special government employees on the AC) and Dr. Thomas Fleming, a statistician — as well as the $440M deal between Novacea (for which Scher was conducting trials) and Shering-Plough just three weeks after the FDA sent Dendreon ‘back to the drawing board,’ was the Bear Raid on Dendreon’s stock on April 28, 2009.  On that date, shortly before Dendreon was to announce (positive) material information, the stock dropped from $24.50 to $7.50 in 75 seconds. Importantly, the ‘flash crash’ was announced by a poster on the Dendreon Yahoo! message board known as ‘monthaphumchareon.’ (And seriously…75 years old and a female?)

http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Stocks_%28A_to_Z%29/Stocks_D/threadview?m=tm&bn=5342&tid=708092&mid=708150&tof=-1&rt=2&frt=2&off=1

The April 28 “flash crash” bear raid was yet another example of sociopathic Wall Street manipulation, this time, perhaps, intended to allow traders and hedge funds caught in a trap on the ‘short side’ and facing good corporate news on the positive results of the Phase III Provenge trial to exit their positions and go ‘long’ ahead of Dr. Mitch Gold’s conference call. Even with the ‘smoking gun’—that is, the pre-announcement of the bear raid for which a subpoena could have been issued to obtain a person’s name—FINRA let all of the trades stand, and the SEC stood by doing nothing.

This is what passes for ‘oversight’ by our regulators of the US stock markets. Is it any wonder that Bernie Madoff pulled the wool over their eyes for 10 years? No wonder Harry Markopolos testified before the US Senate that the SEC was a ‘captured regulator’ controlled by the very industry it was commissioned to oversee.

Complaints to the SEC and FINRA by CTL and others resulted in no actions being taken. However, one supporter did catch the attention of Senator Chuck Grassley (R, IA), who demanded an investigation. The first hint of this came in the SEC OIG’s Semi-Annual Report to Congress in November, 2009:

http://www.sec-oig.gov/Reports/Semiannual/2009/semifall09.pdf   text, page 98

Allegations of Failure to Investigate

The OIG has opened an investigation into complaints from an investor alleging that the SEC failed to investigate instances of market manipulation and other misconduct in connection with the review, and eventual nonapproval, of a developmental drug. The investor also has alleged that the SEC failed to investigate a recent bear raid on the stock of the company that developed the drug, causing a severe plunge in the stock price. The OIG has reviewed several hundred pages of documents, including numerous e-mails and attachments provided by the complainant. The OIG expects to complete its investigation and issue a report of investigation in the next reporting period.

This was followed by:

http://www.sec-oig.gov/Reports/Semiannual/2010/semiapr10.pdf  text, page 73

Allegations of Enforcement Failure to Investigate (Report No. OIG-521)
“The OIG opened an investigation on August 6, 2009, after receiving an investor complaint from the office of Senator Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), alleging that a “bear raid” against a manufacturer that took place in 2009, resulting in a 65 percent drop in the company’s stock price within 75 seconds. According to the complainant, an Internet message board posting warned of the bear raid in advance of the precipitous fall in the stock price. The complainant further alleged that the SEC failed to investigate this bear raid, as well as additional instances of misconduct in connection with the review, and eventual non-approval, of a company product. The complainant also alleged that certain non-SEC government employees were responsible for serious improprieties in the product approval process and, due to conflicts of interest, should never have been allowed to participate in the process. The focus of the OIG’s investigation was to determine whether the SEC had, in fact, failed to investigate the possible manipulation of the company’s stock, in the form of a bear raid, as alleged.

“During the course of this investigation, the OIG reviewed numerous pages of correspondence and supporting materials provided by the complainant, including approximately 200 e-mails and many attachments thereto. The OIG also reviewed internal SEC case tracking reports for evidence of SEC investigative activity. Finally, the OIG interviewed the complainant, as well as two Enforcement staff members in an effort to determine whether there was an investigation into the alleged bear raid on the company’s stock.

“After conducting a thorough investigation into the complainant’s allegations against the SEC, the OIG issued its report to management on December 9, 2009. In the report, we determined that the SEC was, in fact, actively investigating the specific instance of market manipulation identified by the complainant, namely, the alleged bear raid against the company’s stock. We also determined that the complainant’s allegations that conflicts of interest tainted the product approval process were not within the OIG’s jurisdiction to investigate. Finally, the OIG provided Enforcement staff with the complainant’s numerous materials, and will continue to monitor the progress of Enforcement’s investigation of possible market manipulation related to the Internet message board posting.”

For well over a year, US news agencies and CTL have been attempting to secure a copy of both the Enforcement Division’s and the OIG’s formal Reports in this matter. Recently, we have been successful, and today, are able to provide you with the Report of Investigation by the SEC Office of Inspector General in the matter of OIG-521 and a response letter:

SEC Response Letter – OIG -521.pdf

SEC Report - OIG-521.pdf

There are several interesting things to note about this OIG-521, beginning with Footnote 6. This is a clear reference to Mark Mitchell’s DeepCapture article (really, an exposé of the heinous crimes committed).  It is a ridiculous reference, and completely misstates fact. It’s almost as if the IG staff is laughing about what it has read in DeepCapture…assuming it even read the 15-chapter story. We suspect that either the OIG staffers deliberately misconstrued the story (unlikely) or took someone else’s word as to what was in the story and didn’t bother to read it themselves (more likely).

Now, we certainly wouldn’t expect that the OIG had time to read a book-length Internet story, but for them to suggest that the story suggests a dark Mafia conspiracy is irresponsible and suggests that the OIG isn’t taking seriously the broader allegations that Dendreon was manipulated over a long period of time. It doesn’t take a genius to look at the price action in Dendron’s common stock over the years together with the bombardment of false and negative information regarding the company and its lead product, Provenge, to know that the share price has been manipulated for quite some time for a number of reasons, both market related as well as of a competitive nature.

So, from the standpoint of Footnote 6, then, we are disappointed that once again, as in the case of Harry Markopolos, the SEC OIG (and the Enforcement Division?) has apparently chosen to ignore the warning signs and may be allowing this travesty to slip through the cracks.

Another very disturbing thing about the OIG-521 Report is the fact that despite repeated attempts to call attention to problems related to special government employees (and others) who participated in the Provenge Advisory Committee, the HHS OIG’s Dan Levinson has so far refused to open an investigation into these matters. Material has repeatedly been sent to him by individuals, Sen. Grassley, and the SEC OIG. Yet, a review of the HHS OIG Semi-Annual Reports to Congress reveal nothing in the way of an investigation.

It should be clear to even the most casual reader that the three-year delay in the approval of Provenge, a non-invasive, non-toxic immunotherapy, was, without question, intended to ‘buy time’ for other of drugs in development to push through trials and into the marketplace. Consider this quote from the Provenge AC of March 29, 2007, by Dr. Scher:

15 offer patients. So if I start thinking, am
16 I denying a potentially useful agent to men
17 who clearly need it, the answer is
18 unfortunately I don’t know. So I say well,

19 what if we think that this really should be
20 available, start thinking about the number

21 of agents that are currently under
22 development…

P. 321, Provenge Advisory Committee Meeting

It should be noted that Dr. Scher uttered these words as a special government employee at a time when he was serving as co-lead on the development of Asentar, Novacea’s drug for prostate cancer. (The trial was subsequently stopped when it was found the drugged was killing patients.) At this time, too, Dr. Scher had a relationship with Cougar Biotechnology, which not only was later bought out by Johnson & Johnson, but which recently received approval for what now is known as Zytiga. Even more interesting is the fact that in damning Provenge, both during the meeting and later, in his leaked letter to Dr. von Eschenbach, Dr. Scher admitted that he had no experience whatsoever with Provenge:

1 DR. SCHER: Personally I have no
2 experience with this agent, so I’d just like
3 to ask the clinicians who have used it, we
4 all understand the difficulties assessing
5 time-to-progression and how it does not
6 associate with survival as we are currently
7 measuring it.

P. 87, Provenge Advisory Committee Meeting

Finally, there is the question of whether or not the Enforcement Division is or has conducted an investigation into this matter. Repeated FOIA requests finally brought the (verbal) result that no formal Report similar to Report OIG-521 has been written by the Enforcement Division. It has been confirmed, however —again, through a recent FOIA request—that all of the material provided to Sen. Grassley and the SEC OIG (and, subsequently, to the Enforcement Division) does still exist, so at least we know that it has not been destroyed. Some readers of this Blog may recall that recently Matt Taibbi wrote about a whistleblower who revealed the following:

“Imagine a world in which a man who is repeatedly investigated for a string of serious crimes, but never prosecuted, has his slate wiped clean every time the cops fail to make a case. No more Lifetime channel specials where the murderer is unveiled after police stumble upon past intrigues in some old file – “Hey, chief, didja know this guy had two wives die falling down the stairs?” No more burglary sprees cracked when some sharp cop sees the same name pop up in one too many witness statements. This is a different world, one far friendlier to lawbreakers, where even the suspicion of wrongdoing gets wiped from the record.

“That, it now appears, is exactly how the Securities and Exchange Commission has been treating the Wall Street criminals who cratered the global economy a few years back. For the past two decades, according to a whistle-blower at the SEC who recently came forward to Congress, the agency has been systematically destroying records of its preliminary investigations once they are closed. By whitewashing the files of some of the nation’s worst financial criminals, the SEC has kept an entire generation of federal investigators in the dark about past inquiries into insider trading, fraud and market manipulation against companies like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and AIG. With a few strokes of the keyboard, the evidence gathered during thousands of investigations – “18,000 … including Madoff,” as one high-ranking SEC official put it during a panicked meeting about the destruction – has apparently disappeared forever into the wormhole of history.”

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/is-the-sec-covering-up-wall-street-crimes-20110817

It didn’t take William Cohan long to call for the SEC to be shut down, something with which we couldn’t agree more:

“Thanks to Darcy Flynn, a longtime attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission, we now have all the ammunition we need to do what should have been done years ago: terminate the SEC, with extreme prejudice, and in its place construct a new regulatory watchdog for Wall Street free of obvious conflicts of interest.

“Flynn’s courage has almost been lost in all the recent apocalyptic talk of earthquakes and hurricanes, but a few weeks back he did something remarkable. After raising concerns internally at the SEC last year — and getting nowhere — Flynn went public and alleged in a formal whistleblower complaint that for at least 17 years the SEC “followed a policy of systematically destroying documents” related to what are known as Matters Under Investigation, or MUIs, most of which were focused on possibly illicit or illegal behavior at Wall Street firms. MUIs are the first step in investigating a case that may lead to a formal SEC inquiry. Flynn alleged the MUIs were destroyed after the cases were closed when they should have been retained. He catalogued his complaints in a letter to Senator Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican and the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Grassley wrote to Mary Schapiro, the head of the SEC, asking her to respond to him about Flynn’s allegations by tomorrow. She hasn’t yet done so as of yesterday.

“In his letter to Grassley, Flynn alleged that the SEC had destroyed documents related to MUIs involving Bernard Madoff; Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS)’s trading in the credit-default swaps of insurer American International Group Inc. (AIG); “financial fraud” at Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) and Bank of America Corp. (BAC); and “insider-trading investigations” at Deutsche Bank AG (DBK), Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ) and SAC Capital Advisors LP.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-30/one-more-reason-to-shut-sec-and-start-over-commentary-by-william-d-cohan.html

While the second OIG Semi-Annual Report to Congress states that the IG would continue to monitor this issue, the Report states that for now, it has closed this matter (p. 7).

Finally, we note that a considerable amount of material has been redacted at the end of the Report. This material was withheld in accordance with the third paragraph of the cover letter:

“Further, we are withholding certain information within OIG-
521 pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(A), 17 CFR §
200.80(b)(7)(i). This exemption protects from disclosure
Information compiled for law enforcement purposes, the release
of which could reasonably be expected to interfere with
enforcement activities. Because the underlying circumstances
may change, we may later disclose some of this information. If
you wish, you may make another request six months from the date
of this letter.”

Whether or not actual “law enforcement” activities are ongoing is questionable. It’s been more than two years since the Bear Raid, and considering that the SEC was handed the smoking gun (the name of the person who preannounced the raid) and the fact that no sign of action has been forthcoming, we at CTL are skeptical that the Securities and Exchange Commission is capable of doing anything properly.

*Mark Mitchell’s seminal piece on Dendreon, Michael Milken and Dendreon, will be released this fall in book form. The tradeback (paperback) book will be entitled The Dendreon Effect: How Felons, Con-men and Wall Street Insiders Manipulate High-tech Stocks, from Silver Lake Publishing. Readers also may enjoy Theodore Jerome Cohen’s Death by Wall Street: Rampage of the Bulls, which is based on the Dendreon story. http://www.theodore-cohen-novels.com/deathbywallstreet.html

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Human Health and Resources (HHS) transparency rules differs greatly between divisions. Center for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) has been forthcoming with our Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests, while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) continue stalling. 

Read more at Pharmalot http://www.pharmalot.com/2011/04/the-fda-conflicts-of-interest-provenge-e-mails/

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Although the Court of Appeals decision did not go our way in the case of CTL vs. FDA, whereby we are seeking documents Richard Pazdur declared he shredded and deleted, the Court was kind enough to inform us that our initial request was not specific enough. Therefore Care To Live has filed a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, which is on its way to the FDA’s Division of Freedom of Information as I post this.

CTL is asking for all documents and e-mails, among other things, sent to and from Richard Pazdur during the period October 1, 2006 through October 1, 2007, inclusive. CTL is quite specific this time in detailing exactly what we are asking them to search for.

The new FOIA request can be seen here:

ctl-cder-foia-request.pdf

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Dear Colleague (ahem),

Now for the cover letter that accompanied that spurious paper.

These anonymous dolts are truly grasping at straws, alluding to fictional dreams of bloodshed and birth defects.

We are not about harming people. Au contraire. We want people to live longer with better quality of life.

If I were to mention Thalidomide, which caused birth defects in thousands of women, in the same sentence as the safe, non toxic, non invasive immunotherapy Provenge that helps men with prostate cancer add years to their lives, I would want to remain anonymous too.

Who are these physicians and scientists in favor of suffering and death?

Okay, okay, I will shut up and present the letter.

anonymous-misinformation-cover-letter.pdf

Our previous blog covered the bogus report making the rounds, falsely disparaging Provenge. (see blog below Provenge is Approved but the Lies Continue)

This further dispels that bogus report. Care To Live has learned,

Dendritic/other immune cells are extravascular, not in the blood. Removing less than 3% of immune system. If you check 3 weeks after apheresis, level of immune cells in blood is same as prior to apheresis.

The immune cell count calculation within the report appears to be wrong. Based on the article, the calculation discussed the immunodepletion of the cells within the blood. However, the majority of immune cells are in the TISSUE, and not just in the blood. Dendreon measured the immunodepletion 3 weeks into the trial and that was normalized.

Within the clinical trials no increase in infection was seen between placebo arm and Provenge arm. This suggests a normalized immune system.

The survival in the control arm was no different than historical normals for Prostate Cancer.

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A bogus 27 page paper is being aggressively sent around wall street, and the medical, scientific regulatory and legal community, asking people to contact the FDA and the CMS. The cover letter touts the nonsense that they are scared to voice their concerns publicly. Feigning their safety fears is the same ploy they used last time, hiring bodyguards, at the taxpayers expense, fabricating non-existent threats, while no police reports ever turned up. This time we are determined to get to the bottom of it.

provenge-approval-fud.pdf

Their poor argument about the Phase III trial is dispelled here by Provenge advocate Ocyan:

This was a serious piece of work to support an argument that Dr. Hussain put up during the 2007 AC meeting when she said that the placebo protocol might have been active and could hurt patients. At that time, she gave no explanation of how that could be the case. Now, the argument is that it is immuno-depletion.

The basic idea is that a large number of immune cells were taken from a patient in a leukapheresis procedure. If a patient was on the treatment arm, he would get most of them back on reinfusion. However, if a patient was on the control arm, he only got back less than a third of what was taken during the leukapheresis procedure. Therefore, the immune system of a placebo patient was suppressed. That is called immuno-depletion.

The immuno-depletion attack on Provenge goes like this. Because of immuno-depletion, Continue Reading Provenge Is Approved But The Lies Continue »

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Senseless years of death and delay for late stage prostate cancer patients while FDA Honchos collect huge salaries, enjoying life to the fullest.

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Dendreon announced updated results today from its pivotal Phase 3 IMPACT trial for late stage prostate cancer. The results were even better than we expected. According to Dendreon, the study “demonstrated that PROVENGE increased three-year survival by 40 percent compared to placebo.”

This is truly awesome and in line with what we always believed about the potential of Provenge and Immunotherapy. Dr. Phillip Kantoff, the Director of the Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Chief of the Division of Solid Tumor Oncology, and Chief Clinical Research Officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and principal investigator of the IMPACT study, said it best:

“The results from the IMPACT study corroborate earlier studies with sipuleucel-T in demonstrating an improvement in overall survival for men with metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer.”

This is why CareToLive, represented by our attorney, Kerry M. Donahue, fought so long and so hard to keep Provenge in the limelight after the FDA delayed approval for almost 3 years to date.

The earlier studies which were reviewed by an FDA Advisory Committee back in March 2007 demonstrated survival, the FDA gold standard for approval of cancer treatments, especially for terminal patients who had no other options, yet we are still awaiting approval.

Dr. Kantoff reminded us that we are seeing medical history:

“This is the first therapeutic vaccine to demonstrate a survival benefit in cancer.”

This goes way beyond prostate cancer because Dendreon is going to use similar treatments to try to tackle other cancers, such as breast,  colon , ovarian cancer, etc.

Although safety was never a concern in prior trials, rumors abounded, and today, Dr. Kantoff, in the press release, tames that concern while reiterating the medical history we are about to experience:

“Furthermore, the results of this study validate cancer immunotherapy as an entirely new treatment paradigm that can provide patients with a clinically meaningful survival benefit coupled with a well-tolerated safety profile.”

CareToLive is thrilled to proudly broadcast this great news.

The three-year survival by 40% compared to placebo is record breaking. Now we need the FDA to  enable the men in dire need to get Provenge ASAP!

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   On January 28, 2010 the Florida Bar recognized Kerry M. Donahue, CareToLive’s attorney extraordinaire, for his stellar pro bono efforts on behalf of prostate cancer patients.

“The Food and Drug Administration has lost its way”, said Mr. Donahue. “The FDA Advisory Committee advised the FDA to approve Provenge, a safe, effective, non-toxic immunotherapy for men with late stage prostate cancer, and then the FDA delayed it without a rational explanation.”

Kerry sprung into action. He wrote dozens of motions and briefs, spending hundreds of hours trying to right the wrong. Without his efforts, we at CareToLive believe that the FDA would have deferred to the chemo cartel, who never wanted Provenge to see the light of day. He brought enough exposure, to insure that Provenge gets a fair chance for licensure this time around.

The FDA knew the patients were staring death in the face since they granted Dendreon’s Provenge Fast Track Status and Priority Review. It then chose to ignore its handpicked Advisory Committee which voted Provenge safe by a vote of 17-0 and substantial evidence of efficacy, by a vote of 13-4.

Kerry was honored by the President of the Florida Bar, Jesse H. Diner, & the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, Peggy A. Quince.

Recently the Acting Director of CBER, Karen Midthun, denied Kerry’s request for a meeting. Ms. Midthun said the reason was as follows: “However, FDA cannot discuss matters with respect to a pending BLA without the express authorization of the sponsor. Therefore, at this time, we respectfully decline your request for a meeting.”

This statement flies in the face of the fact that FDA leaked letters written by Howard Scher, Maha Hussain, and Thomas Fleming all of which were discussing “matters with respect to a pending BLA” which were released “without the express authorization of the sponsor.” FDA picks and chooses when it will violate its own regulations, in order to help its business and political relationships.

At the center of this case is Howard Scher, a SGE for FDA, who was leading trials for treatments in competition with Provenge at the time he sat on the Provenge Advisory Committee. One day later he started working on a letter with the help of NCI’s Alison Martin for the sole purpose of lobbying the FDA to stop Provenge. Scher knew the Advisory Committee vote was a problem for his competing trials, one of which NCI funded, so he sprang into action right away. CTL has documented Mr. Scher’s activities and financial concerns (see Sleepless in Asentar and CTL Writes Interim FDA Commissioner Frank Torti). The astonishing fact is FDA went along and helped Scher by leaking his letter as well as follow-up letters by Hussain and Fleming, all of which discussed matters with respect to a pending BLA.

The FDA then had its legal team block all efforts by Kerry to get the men access to Provenge. Over 80,000 men have died while we waited another 2.5 years for further results. Those results are now in and they confirmed that Provenge is safe and effective. We are still waiting while they drool over the data.

In the meantime Kerry is also fighting for the Freedom of Information data to prove how flawed the process was. They are stymying us again, at every turn. He is determined to bring more oversight and transparency to an agency that has run amuck.

Congratuations to Kerry for receiving the Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award for 2010. CTL and all the friends of CTL are very proud of you. You are the best that mankind has to offer.

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In Memoriam: August 24, 2009
Remembering Bruce Tower

On September 17th, 2007, I arrived at JJ Muldoon’s Pub in Gaithersburg Maryland around 9 PM. Before too long, I heard the thunderous voice of a distinguished looking gentleman. He was being escorted to a mini-van by a woman whom I found out was one of our heroines, Melody Davis. Many around them were making a fuss. As the word spread the atmosphere became electrifying. It’s when we all realized who this man was.

Bruce, suffering from late stage prostate cancer, was not in the best physical condition, but he nonetheless made the trip to Maryland to help us protest the next day outside the FDA Headquarters in Rockville. His gut-wrenching speech captured the audience and delivered the message. Many men, like him, need Provenge NOW. They could be strengthening their immune system, fighting the awful disease we know as prostate cancer.

On a Sunday afternoon in April 2008, I spoke to Bruce on the phone. We chatted a bit and then we discussed our fight for Provenge. It was almost a year now and he was willing to keep fighting right along with us. He gave us permission to use his picture and he wrote a letter which we published as an ad in the Rockville Gazette. It is a sad statement to say we had to pay a lot of money to get the story in the local newspaper in the hometown of the FDA. Several times he appeared on the Andrew Schorr Patient Power radio show with us. He and his wife Carol were there whenever we needed their help.

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Week 2 Ad Color caretoliverockvillegazette2ad.pdf

http://caretolive.com/2008-04-09/caretolive-continues-its-in-your-face-ad-campaign-asking-the-fda-to-approve-provenge-for-prostate-cancer-now/

In his letter, Bruce made a simple plea. “Here is my plea; FDA: Please approve Provenge NOW.”

He could have had it working in his body for over two years. Now he will never get the chance to try Provenge to fight for his life.

I can hardly type this now because I just learned we lost Bruce Tower. The emotions run strong. Sadness for Bruce’s family. Anger for the FDA playing the wrong kind of god and withholding a safe and effective treatment. From everything I learned about Bruce, he was a remarkable man, dedicated to his wife, children and grandchildren. He inspired and taught other kids as a soccer coach. He led by example. He was a fine citizen indeed.

From everything I learned about our modern day government, these self-serving fools in charge could basically not give a damn. They are out of touch. They lost control. They are driving a long train full of people to their death tricking them into thinking they are going over a bridge. I can tell you with certainty, there is no bridge.

The empty promises of Andrew von Eschenbach and the nerve of him, makes my blood run cold with contempt. To me, he is the epitome of the captured FDA as declared by Harry Markopolis. To me, he let his friendship with convicted felon Michael Milken ruin his objective mission to serve the American people. Von Eschenbach double-dipped with the FDA and NCI leadership. He already set the Conflict of Interest stage. How could he keep an eye on it when he was wallowing in it?

Poor Bruce and his family. They should have had better. Their goverment let them down. They paid their taxes for nothing, not to mention the pain Bruce endured in his final days. I heard Bruce handled it like the champion he is. He only wanted to see those around him smile and live the good life.

May God richly reward you, Bruce. You should hear those words of old, “Well done my good and faithful servant.” May God comfort your family. May you rest in peace.

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What made me sickest over the Larry King show on prostate cancer was in the beginning of the show, when Larry King stated something along the lines that if they find the cure for prostate cancer they just might have to name it or call it the Milken cure. That set the tone for the show and the angle he was playing.

Larry King lost most of his fortune not too many years ago flipping insurance policy’s under the advice of some scammers. It worked well until he found out he was the mark. To recover, it looks like he went with Madoff, where he was once again taken to the cleaners. In Milken he finally found someone with juice. The show was packed with the mutual admiration society. Milken is doing his image rehabilitation desperately seeking a pardon. Maybe Larry will have Kerry on next (I can dream).

Larry King, Mike Milken, John McEnroe, Colin Powell, Joe Torre, Rudolph Guiliani, a cast of big mouths with not one word to say about Provenge. They are a sickening, pathetic bunch. We know Larry knows about Provenge because many of our friends and members reached out to Larry in the past and more recently before the show. Now if I were a conspiracy theorist…

They never mentioned Provenge, a non toxic, non invasive safe and effective immunotherapy that harnesses and enhances your own healthy cells to fight your own prostate cancer cells. Some men with late stage pc are living 8 years later. 1 in 6 men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime.

Provenge should be on the market by next year, in spite of Milken. His chairman, Howard Scher of the Prostate Cancer Foundation Therapeutic Consortium, and Milken’s recently departed CEO, Alison Martin of the Melanoma Research Alliance, colluded on the leaked letters that stopped Provenge dead in its tracks from reaching the 69,000+ men who have died since May 2007.

Mark Mitchell of Deep Capture recently published an exposé about Milken’s part in the death of 60,000 men and the delay of Provenge. The complete story of Dendreon is now available  21 August 2009
Read the full story

The PCF is also trying to take credit for financing Provenge? It stated this because it sent some money to the University of San Francisco back in the year 2000 for Eric Small to work on immunotherapy. In 2006 Small wrote a rather positive article stating Provenge may work. In 2007 Howie Scher and Alison Martin used that 2006 abstract against Provenge highlighting the word “may” as to say it may not work. PCF cannot take credit here. It can take credit for two of its big shots stopping Provenge which had positive Phase III trials under its belt while Asentar, Abiraterone and GVAX, treatments the PCF touted, were only finished with Phase II trials.

Furthermore, in the 2005 PCF Annual Report, Novacea and Cougar did not give any money to PCF. Dendreon donated between $25k to $50K. Cell Genesis gave between $10K to $25K.

Not only did the PCF do nothing to push for Provenge approval, they actually accepted money from Dendreon to support the PCF. It should have been the other way around. Dendreon was struggling for every dollar it could muster, and must have felt it had to make a donation to PCF too! Something stinks in the world of Milken’s philanthropy and I can smell it all the way in New Jersey.

Continue Reading Hey Larry King! Do your homework!! »

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