FDA Sued for Withholding Cancer Treatment
My Evolving Views on the Provenge Story
Provenge: The Battle for a New Prostate Cancer Treatment 8/7/07
Court denies terminally ill experimental meds 8/7
Poll: Did the court make the right decision?A fight to give hope to the terminally ill
Biotechs Challenge
FDA Approval Process;
Dying? Tough Luck
The grim regulator
Feds keep punishing terminal patients
"The New Right to Life"
No Experimental Meds For The Terminally Ill 8/8/07
FDA Receives Assurances That PDUFA Remains Priority on Capitol Hill
The FDA and Life Saving Drugs - Redux
"DYSFUNCTION AT THE FDA"(from page B4 of the Washington Post 7/15/07)
"Cancer Regression""In recent years, the FDA has effectively regressed to a pre-AIDS mindset. The accelerated approval requirements have stiffened and the real benefits of the process for patients have been whittled away."
By RICHARD MILLER
The cancer industry remains ignorant of useful treatments 8/7/07
The end-point of survival is what counts to advanced prostate patients and their families! Nothing more.
HOT NEWS
"Dendreon, Provenge And Conflicts Of Interest"
FDA Panels Would End Conflicts Of Interest, According To House Proposal 8/7
FDA Receives Assurances That PDUFA Remains Priority on Capitol Hill
"FDA Builds a Bridge to Afterlife"
"Isn’t it interesting that AIDS, which is a new disease compared to prostate cancer has many drugs and treatment options, while prostate cancer victims have only one drug…Taxotere.
Can you say monopoly?"
"Hey, Hey, FDA, How Many Dads Did You Kill Today?"FDA Delays Cancer Treatment -
Money, Power & Greed?
"FDA tyranny to become law"
".House of Representatives, much like the Senate, is utterly controlled by Big Pharma and has abandoned any responsibility to defend the interests of the voters. Drug companies now have complete control over the U.S."
"it may be time we focus less on statistical significance alone,
and more on patient benefit." Howard I. Scher , MD
Scientists at the National Cancer Institute found evidence that therapeutic cancer vaccines, including
Dendreon's Provenge, were "prolonging patient survival."
"Imagine calling a clinical study a failure because the tumor size did not significantly decrease, yet the average survival rate of patients increased! Is it not the survival of patients the real aim of medical treatment? Provenge deserves a second hard look by the FDA,"
China executes top FDA official while the U.S. does nothing to counter corruption
"Provenge, FDA Panels And
Conflicts Of Interest"
"The FDA agenda is favorable to Big Pharma and the sickness industry,"
"It is harmful to the personal health and health options of Americans."
“Power To The Patients”
Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach
Does he NOT Want : Dying Prostate Cancer patients to have the Provenge choice !?
Dr. Richard Pazdur
Does he NOT Want : Dying Prostate Cancer patients to have the Provenge choice!?
"The Division's mission is to ensure that new cancer drugs are as safe and effective as possible and to facilitate access to promising therapies for seriously ill and dying patients when no other treatment is available."
"Pazdur's Revenge"
"Pazdur's Cancer Rules"
"Drug Czars"
Who Represents the People? Industry Influence and Organized Advocacy
Dr. Howard Scher
Does he NOT Want : Dying Prostate Cancer patients to have the Provenge choice!?
Schers Alleged Undisclosed COI's
(Conflicts of Interest)
"When Howard’s drug is concerned, he sure seems to want to loosen things up, eh? But when a rival therapy, which has the potential to set the chemotherapy establishment on its rear end, and which even he acknowledges is perfectly safe, is being considered, its time to violate protocol and write letters to the FDA to ensure its denial."
Dr. Maha Hussain
Does she NOT Want : Dying Prostate Cancer patients to have the Provenge choice!?
What about You Mr. Milken?Would you like to see Dying Prostate Cancer Patients
have the Provenge Choice?
Where are You?
"Power to the Patients" ?Gary S. Becker, Ph.D.
FasterCures Board Member
"Giving people whose lives are threatened by serious diseases greater access to safe, promising (albeit unproven) drugs and other treatments would help their psychological state. More important, it would lower the cost and hasten the development of therapies that could really make a difference."
"As I started digging into the story, little did I know that I would find such manure, politics, and corruption. I found an insidious Cancer within the FDA that is multiplying itself, driving promising treatments to extinction. This Cancer is life-threatening to not only to Dendreon, but to many other enterprises with promising new treatment options."
Karuna Kanagaratnam
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