The Sixth Circuit Court in Cincinnati, Ohio has granted the request of CareToLive to present oral argument in Appeal No. 07-4465 which is the appeal of the Southern District of Ohio Court decision (case # 07-729).

Oral arguments will be heard on July 29th at 1:30 pm at the Potter Stewart United States Court House, 100 East Fifth St., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Argument will be before a three judge panel. The identity of the three judge panel will not be identified until two weeks before the oral argument date.

Also, Thanks to all the participants that helped make the first ever Coast to Coast prostate cancer demonstrations a huge success!

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I will try to keep this brief to give a short overview of the situation. The facts are out there for anybody who wants to examine this further. You may also email us for further info.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6Q0uQAL_YDA Video of Care To Live member Ted Girgus taken at our nationwide protest in Seattle. Ted has stage IV prostate cancer, that has metastacized to his bones. Ted and his doctor, want him on Provenge NOW! (More videos and photos coming soon)

Who We Are

Care To Live is a non profit group, who formed for the sole purpose of challenging the current status quo of the prostate cancer standard of care for end stage prostate cancer. We are trying to prod our fda, our government, our medical community, our advocacy groups, and our investment firms, into embracing the better science of immunotherapy, and to consider the people first, over their profits.

Neither the Board of Directors, nor any Care To Live member or friend, including our Attorney, Kerry Donahue, receive any salary. We are volunteers from around the world, who care about the health and well being of people everywhere and are concerned that there are better treatment options which are being overlooked. We saw the immunotherapy Provenge, and what it can do, and we feel it is our duty to stand up and fight for it. It is not easy to challenge and change the current entrenched cancer treatment options. Many of us are dedicated to stay at this until Provenge is approved. We want better, safer, more humane treatments, NOW!

We are funded by small contributions from people who want to promote Provenge and Immunotherapy as a standard of care in fighting cancer. We are joined by a few great advocacy groups who support us, such as Abigail-Alliance, A Right To Live, and the Cancer Cure Coalition. We did get some additional support from Us Too, but by and large we are mostly ignored by the advocacy groups. We can only surmise that they must perceive immunotherapy as a threat to their personal agendas.

The beauty of Care To Live is that they cannot buy our silence, and they know we will never sell out for any price. We are determined to see immunotherapy brought into the 21st century.

Dendreon, the company that discovered the immunotherapy Provenge’s targeted antigen cassette delivery system, also has similar treatments in their sight for breast, colon, ovarian, lung, kidney, and cervical cancers, etc.

Are there any treatments for end stage prostate cancer?

One new treatment has been approved by our FDA in 43 years. It is a chemotherapy, which is so toxic, that most men who understand the consequences of taking it, refuse to do so. Some men will die directly as a result of the treatment. If it is successful they can expect a life extension of an extra 2 1/2 months filled with extra pain and suffering due to the severe side effects of the chemotherapy, as the cancer and the chemotherapy ravish their bodies.

What is Provenge?

Provenge is a non invasive, non toxic, targeted immunotherapy which utilizes one’s healthy cells to fight end stage prostate cancer. It is administered in 3 infusions as an outpatient using one’s own white blood cells, to mount an attack against the cancer. Some men are living as long as 7 years after the three treatments they received 7 years prior. The side effects are usually limited to a day or two of fever and chills as your body builds up an immune response.

Can I get Provenge?

No.

Provenge went before the FDA over a year ago to apply for a license. They spent years consulting with the FDA who granted Continue Reading Denial is a River of Blood at the FDA »

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Watch for Our Return to Rockville this week.

CareToLive Demonstrates at FDA 4/2/2008 (video & recap)

Russia Approves World’s First Cancer Vaccine
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0728116320080408

6 Videos

Care To Live kicks off its new awareness campaign advocating for men with prostate cancer.

The Drive to the FDA in Rockville
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4PtSyK_5hp8

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CareToLive Ad Full Page Color 8.5 ” x 11″ (click here)

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1/2 Page Rockville Gazette Newspaper Ad (Actual Size) 5.638″ x 11″ (click here)

Copy of this 4/2/08 Press Release (click here)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ADVOCACY GROUP “CARE TO LIVE” BEGINS LATEST CAMPAIGN

CareToLive Continues To Enlighten the World to the Dastardly Deeds of the FDA

Starting today, Wednesday April 2, 2008, CareToLive has begun the process of placing weekly advertisements in the Rockville Gazette, in Rockville, Maryland. These ads will contain letters from patients, families of patients or physicians. New letters will appear each week until the FDA does the humane thing and approves Provenge for the patients. The letters will also be distributed by volunteers on the streets of Rockville and on the internet.

CareToLive highlights the FDA’s blatant refusal to allow access to Provenge to men who are dying from late stage prostate cancer.

The letters will be heartfelt appeals to the humanity of the FDA, who even now, after being provided with the evidence that the Provenge BLA process was corrupted, do nothing to remedy it.

The FDA continues to refuse to follow its own rules regarding Citizens’ Petitions and refuses to comply with the Freedom of Information Act. Eighty four (84) men die every day while the FDA argues it needs 20 more months to provide simple documents to CareToLive and more than 8 months have passed without action on the CareToLive Citizens’ Petition.

First the citizens of Rockville, the home of the FDA, will further awaken to the travesty that occurred in their town that resulted in the denial of Provenge to 26,000 AIPC patients who have since died. Next the world will know.

More at www.CareToLive.com.

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WE NEED EVERYONE TO SHOUT TO THEIR CONGRESSMEN FOR THE 230,000 AMERICAN MEN WHO ARE DIAGNOSED WITH PROSTATE CANCER EACH YEAR! WE ARE HERE! WE ARE HERE! DON’T JUST DIGG THIS, READ IT, THEN ACT! IT’S EASY. FOLLOW THESE STEPS. I GUARANTEE IT WILL BE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS YOU EVER DO IN YOUR LIFE. DO IT FOR TED. READ TED’s LETTER…

Prostate cancer is the silent killer. Silent because men run and hide when they have prostate cancer. Silent because you never know if the man sitting next to you has it. Silent because people don’t even tell their friends and relatives that they have it. Nobody wants to admit that they have had their prostate gland removed, or that they are undergoing chemical castration, or physical castration, or have become impotent or have urine leakage or bowel leakage, or any of the myriad of terrible side effects which may occur from the current treatments. As the cancer progresses the current strategy is to supress your testosterone output in order to arrest the disease. Eventually all men undergoing chemical testosterone castration will fail! The cancer will spread to your bones and organs. It is a horrible and a miserable death. Nobody wants to talk about it. Not nobody. NO MORE. WE ARE HERE AND WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED. DELAY = DEATH for the 20,000 plus American men who have already died this year form prostate cancer since the immunotherapy Provenge was delayed.

Please join us at this crucial time in urging your own Congressional Representative to join the 3 Representatives calling for a Congressional Hearing on the FDA corruption and conflicts of interest that went into the terrible decision to delay. We are adding Representatives to the list everyday but the window is rapidly closing. A decision will be made, possibly next week, over whether they will hold a hearing. We need EVERYONE to make a noise.

A Simple Plea

Jan. 25th 2008

Dear Friends,

My name is Ted Girgus and I am an advanced prostate cancer patient who is becoming hormone refractory. My PSA levels unfortunately have been going up for the last 7 months.

I come to you with a simple plea. Don’t let the FDA treat me as a statistic. I am a 64-year-old man who has been fighting this disease for 10 years. I have a wonderful wife who has been at my side the whole time.

I worry because I have 4 sons and genetically speaking they have a very high chance of contracting this disease.

The FDA has decided that I am not real. I am a statistic. 30,000 of us statistics die every year. We die a horrible death to be sure.

We know the Provenge story, we know the conflicts of interests, NOW we have to make every lawmakers know about it.

Should I die before Provenge is approved, I come to you again with a simple plea, don’t let my sons die as well. Let them live in a world were people who see injustice stand up and say “no more”.

Make the FDA explain why thousands of men of all backgrounds have to die while they wait for more statistics.

Give Provenge the “Approval” it should have received. Let men like me have an opportunity to receive this new treatment. I will not take chemotherapy and steroids. The side effects of chemo is horrendous and has proved to be of little or no value to prostate cancer patients. Why add to my agony.

If we must die, let us die with dignity.

God Bless You All,

Ted Girgus

Please join with us at this vital crossroads and contact your Congressional Representative to push, prod and poke them into joining the 3 Congressmen who are calling for a hearing on what went wrong with the immunotherapy Provenge biologics license application, voted overwhelmingly safe and effective by the FDA panel of experts and then delayed.

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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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