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- 08/28/2008 - CareToLive Continues Fight for Prostate Cancer Patients Rights!
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- Get On The Bus Gus!
- The FDA Is Out Of Control
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.
Get On The Bus Gus!
November 5th, 2007 | Posted by CTLToday CareToLive, a nonprofit group, rolled out a bus ad campaign in their continuing battle against the FDA, on behalf of cancer patients who are fighting for their lives. They are taking on a major target in the FDA. CareToLive is fighting them in the streets and in the Court for approval of Provenge, an immunotherapy that may enable men with prostate cancer to live longer, healthier lives.
CareToLive began its advocacy efforts with rallies in Washington D.C. and Chicago, and more recently at FDA headquarters in Rockville, Md. They also took a half page ad in the Washington Post outlining this travesty and calling out the FDA, whom they say operates in a dysfunctional manner. “It is an uphill battle for us but it is one that we feel we must fight,” said CareToLive spokesperson Mike Kearney. “There are currently 30,000 men in the United States with terminal stage prostate cancer. These men are running out of time. We are not going away until somebody takes action to right this injustice. This is an emergency!”
SIX MONTHS ANNIVERSARY SINCE “BLACK WEDNESDAY”
May 9, 2007, dubbed “Black Wednesday” by Dr. Mark Thornton in a Wall Street Journal Commentary, was the day a few bureaucrats inside the FDA chose to overrule their own panel of expert’s overwhelming recommendation for approval, and instead delayed this treatment for an end stage disease with no viable alternatives, an “unprecedented” action. CareToLive filed litigation in Federal Court (Southern District of Ohio) on behalf of prostate cancer patients desperately seeking Provenge. CareToLive Advocacy Ads Throughout Rockville, MD and Washington D.C.
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Tags: Andrew Von Eschenbach, Care To Live, CareToLive, CareToLive Lawsuit, FDA, Get on the Bus Gus, Hop on the Bus Gus, howard i scher, Immunotherapy, Mike Leavitt, provenge, Provenge Confidential, Richard Pazdur
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The FDA Is Out Of Control
November 4th, 2007 | Posted by CTLCareToLive, a not for profit corporation, is a group which advocates for men with terminal stage prostate cancer. These men are desperately seeking access to Provenge, a proven safe and effective immunotherapy, to help them in their fight for their lives. One in six men will come down with prostate cancer. Only one very toxic treatment, a chemotherapy, has been approved for late stage prostate cancer in over 42 years.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3946327005662640676
Provenge is an immunotherapy which retrains one’s healthy cells to fight off the cancer cells, unlike radiation and chemotherapy which indiscriminately kills off one’s healthy cells along with one’s cancerous cells. Provenge has proven to be safe and effective and was overwhelmingly voted for by an FDA Advisory Committee, yet the FDA delayed approval indefinitely.
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Tags: Andrew Von Eschenbach, Care To Live, CareToLive, Dendreon, Dr. Mark Moyad, FDA, Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt, Prostate Cancer, provenge, Richard Pazdur
Posted in The Cause, The Dysfunctional FDA | 1 Comment »