Comments on: Coming Attraction: Michael Milken, 60,000 Deaths, and The Story of Dendreon

By: kddublin

kddublin — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:43:35 +0000

This would be an excellent Dateline or 20/20 show!

By: Patrick Byrne

Patrick Byrne — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:41:13 +0000

Nancy,

Sure, if the show will have me. But Mitchell deserves all the credit, and should tell this tale.

Patrick

By: Nancy S, Calif.

Nancy S, Calif. — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:22:42 +0000

Can you go on Alex Jones’ show and talk about it? THX

By: The Man

The Man — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:24:00 +0000

The story of Dendreon needs to be made into an hour long Dateline segment…. maybe even a two hour special!

By: huck

huck — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:53:26 +0000

Dr. Byrnes…….. Did you imagine, in your wildest dreams, that taking a call in a cc, from some obviously insane fool, fobbing himself off as bob the bunny, would lead you down this twist in your life??????? Someday, the world will praise you because you didn’t laugh him off.

By: zino

zino — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:58:59 +0000

akcje,

Assuming you are not paid for… Patrick, has said that it was a “remote chance”. If you’ve experienced what most of us DNDN investors have experienced with DNDN, then you would understand, that it’s an appropriate precaution…

zino

By: akcje

akcje — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:15:34 +0000

” on the remote chance that anything happened to interrupt the serialization of this piece on DeepCapture “….

How often do you check your closets and under your bed?

Or perhaps you’ve meant …”sensationalization” of this piece…??

Of course since certain doctors don’t need their body guards any more, you could perhaps hire them. Apparently they did succeed defending the good doctors…

If you keep up your sensational style you risk sensitization of your patients, err I mean readers.

By: Tony F

Tony F — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:01:18 +0000

WOW! and about time that someone has taken up the banner of revealing the saga of Provenge and Dendreon Corporation!

Many Thanks, Patrick, for continuing to fight against those who want to play the game with it tilted their way instead of on a level playing field.

I can hardly wait to see if Mark delves into the Conflict of Interests (COI) of one of the FDA Advisory Committee members… Howard Isadore Scher of Sloan-Kettering in NYC.

Those acquainted with this part of the tale remembers that Scher certified, in writing, to the FDA that he had but 3 COI in order to be allowed a “waiver” to sit in judgment of Provenge.

Internet research shows that he had 17–14 more than he disclosed to the FDA. Here they are:

1. NOVACEA: Grants & Research support;
… STUDY CHAIR of DN-101
… a DIRECT competitor to Provenge
… DN-101 failed its clinical trial

2. GPB BIOTECH: Financial Conflict of Interest per Scher in MedPage

3. PHARMION: Financial Conflict of Interest per Scher in MedPage

4. SANOFI-AVENTIS: Grants & Research Support

5. BRISTOL MYERSSQUIBB: Consultant, Grants & Research

6. MILLENNIUM PHARMCEUTICALS: Grant of Research Support

7. COUGAR BIOTECHNOLOGY: Principal Investigator; Advisory Board;

8. INNOVIVE PHARMACEUTICALS: Principal Investigator

9. INFINITY PHARMACEUTICALS: Principal Investigator

10. BIOGEN-IDEC: jointly held stock with spouse

11. PFIZER: jointly held stock with spouse

12. GENTA: Scientific Advisory Board (as of March 6, 2007; since removed from web but cached)

13. CONFOMA THERAPEUTICS: Scientific Advisory Board

14. DEPARTMENT of DEFENSE: Principal Investigator PC Clinical Trials-P1 and P2

15. AMBRILIABIOPHARMA INC: Principal Investigator PCK3145, Phase I/II

16. MEDIVATION, INC: Principal Investigator MDV3100

17. PROQUEST INVESTMENTS,
… Board of Directors
… Advisor
… INVESTED in Novacea—a direct Provenge competitor.

And, after digging this info up and submitting it, in writing, to the Health and Human Services, Office of Investigations as well as to the FDA Investigative Division, for 2 years now, nothing–not one single bit of investigation–has been done of these allegations against Scher.

Of course, there’s tons more to this charade and travesty… I’m very anxious to see what you guys have dug up and put together.

Thank you and Best Wishes!

Tony F in Virginia Beach

By: kelatious

kelatious — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:45:04 +0000

Thank you Mark and Patrick. Your investigation will no doubt be extremely thorough. Surely someone in the main stream media has yet to be bought. Surely a “60 Minutes” will pick up this horrendous story. A travesty. The power damn well better not go out…..but thanks for the “auto-pilot” initiative. I see an award coming your way…..and hopefully some arrests.

Thanks again,
kelatious

By: kddublin

kddublin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:15:47 +0000

Way to go Mark!

Can’t wait for chapter two..soon I hope!!

By: robert long

robert long — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:50:29 +0000

I have been waiting for this.

Now its time to get the
we’s involved in the truth of what is really happening in our country.

By: tom waits

tom waits — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:43:36 +0000

Thank you Patrick! I can’t wait to read it!

By: Tom F.

Tom F. — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:41:31 +0000

To DeepCapture, Thanks infinitely for the wonderful work you are doing to expose the truth and, in doing so, ultimately help to pave the way for new cures to be approved against the most horrendous and debilitating cancers. Shame goes to those who’ve profited from the delays to new immunotherapy treatments such as Provenge. The financial, social, intellectual and administrative benefits should go to those who have worked so hard to discover and approve the positive clinical trials of such treatments, not to those who’ve stood in the way of approval of those treatments. As a parent of a leukemia survivor and the son of a dear mother who died from glioblastoma, I am most thankful for your journalism, your integrity, your courage and the hope that you bestow to all who are afflicted by cancer. Your revelation of the failures pervading the FDA should be seen and heard by all peoples of this world. We deserve a more honest and non-partisan, non-embedded FDA. We deserve the right to receive better treatments and should have the choice to those treatments. This is the 21 century, according to my calendar, but there appear to be many forces both inside and outside the FDA that want to keep us in the 18th century. We can’t let them succeed and won’t let them succeed.

By: clearthinker

clearthinker — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:12:07 +0000

Thank you sir….we are all forever in your debt for being willing to stand up and take the abuse of the miscreants….I consider myself lucky to know you.

By: dougout

dougout — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:43:01 +0000

Thank you Patrick!!! I know many of the pieces of the Dendreon story. It is amazing, dramatic, scandalous, and a medical near-miracle, and it deserves to be told. I know if it’s published under your auspices, it will be superb.