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- 08/25/2010 - Senators Specter and Kerry - CMS Has Some ‘Splaining To Do
- 08/14/2010 - ASCO Tells CMS It Should Cover Provenge
- 07/29/2010 - Provenge Works & Costs the Same as Chemo & Comments by Bishop
- 07/25/2010 - Setting the Record Straight
- 07/15/2010 - The Bloodshed, Bogus Threats, Birth Defects, Bashers Cover Letter
- 07/15/2010 - Provenge Is Approved But The Lies Continue
- 07/08/2010 - PROVENGE WILL BE COVERED BY MEDICARE
- 07/06/2010 - CareToLive sends a Freedom of Information Request to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- 07/04/2010 - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are requesting comments.
- 05/20/2010 - Dr. Snuffy Myers Advocates For Provenge Treatment
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- Dr. Snuffy Myers Advocates For Provenge Treatment
- The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are requesting comments.
- CareToLive sends a Freedom of Information Request to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- PROVENGE WILL BE COVERED BY MEDICARE
- Provenge Is Approved But The Lies Continue
- The Bloodshed, Bogus Threats, Birth Defects, Bashers Cover Letter
- The Real Provenge Story
- Setting the Record Straight
- BREAKING NEWS! PROVENGE APPROVED!
- Provenge Works & Costs the Same as Chemo & Comments by Bishop
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.
The Bloodshed, Bogus Threats, Birth Defects, Bashers Cover Letter
July 15th, 2010 | Posted by CTLDear 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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Tags: Care To Live, CareToLive, CMS, Dendreon, FDA, Howard Scher, Kerry M. Donahue, maha hussain, Prostate Cancer, provenge, Richard Pazdur, Thalidomide
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