Raise A Voice Writes to FDA Advisory Committee
Raise a Voice, an advocacy group for advanced prostate cancer patients calling for
patient access to drugs that have passed through Phase I trials, has written a thank you letter to the FDA Advisory Committee on Dendreon's sipuleucel-T (Provenge). The letter is signed by 19 prostate cancer advocacy groups including US Too International and National Prostate Cancer Coalition. The writers say:
The advocates of ÂRaise a VoiceÂ, a grass roots initiative for advanced prostate cancer, would like to express our appreciation for the opportunity to present comments at the Cellular, Tissue and Gene Therapies Advisory Committee meeting on March 29, 2007.
We respect and appreciate the importance and difficulty of the FDA's current process towards decision on approval of Provenge (sipuleucel-T).
Given the following points, we would like to reaffirm our position on the need for additional effective treatments with fewer side effects for advanced prostate cancer.
* The very favorable risk-benefit ratio of Provenge
* The survival data discussed at March 29th meeting
* The necessity for additional effective treatments for advanced and hormone refractory prostate cancer based on the current US death rate of approximately 27,000 men a year
Signers of this letters:
1. Us TOO International
2. Prostate Cancer Research Institute
3. Prostate Health Education Network
4. Malecare
5. National Alliance of State Prostate Cancer Coalitions
6. Virginia Prostate Cancer Coalition
7. Georgia Prostate Cancer Coalition
8. Washington State Prostate Cancer Coalition
9. Prostate Cancer Coalition of Michigan
10. National Prostate Cancer Coalition
11. American Prostate Cancer Initiative
12. The Prostate Cancer Education Forum of Connecticut
13. Maine Coalition to Fight Prostate Cancer
14. Nevada's Prostate Cancer Task Force
15. Prostate Cancer Support Association of New Mexico
16. Hawaii Prostate Cancer Coalition
17. Texas Prostate Cancer Coalition
18. Prostate Cancer 101 of New York
19. New York Prostate Cancer Coalition
Links
RAISE A VOICE
The Prostate Cancer Community Reaffirms their Support for Provenge advancedprostatecancer.net (Joel Nowak's blog)
Joel Nowak's Testimony before FDA Committeee March 29
More on this topic:
Testimony from Prostate Cancer
Patients and Partners, et al.
FDA, March 29 2007.
News reports and releases and about Provenge
and other vaccines
