Sen. John McCain’s (R- Arizona) office has confirmed that the Senator no longer supports his own bill that would significantly tighten the regulatory requirements for dietary supplements. Currently, the manufacturing of supplements is not monitored or controlled by any governmental agency. There is no way to know that the supplement you purchase contains what is [...]
The drug is called Cabazitaxel, (it will be named Jevtana) and is made by the French company Sanofi-Aventis SA. Cabazitaxel is a chemical cousin of Taxotere (the current standard of care) and it is designed to evade the mechanism that cancer cells use to resist Taxotere, so we can assume that initially it would be [...]
I spent most of today listening to the Congressional Hearing on Prostate Cancer. I spent most of today listening to a travesty for men with advanced prostate cancer. I believe that today's hearing pushed men with advanced prostate cancer ten steps backwards. PSA testing, PSA testing is all we heard. Important, yes, but so are [...]
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Congressman Edolphus Towns, will hold a hearing entitled: “Prostate Cancer: New Questions About Screening and Treatment” tomorrow, Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. This is the first Congressional prostate cancer hearing in 11 years and, in the midst of debate on a health reform [...]
According to a Reuters report, a spokeswomen from the FDA said yesterday that, “There is not going to be an additional advisory committee meeting” about the current application for the approval of Provenge. The FDA has the right to convene another meeting to discuss the results of the IMPACT trial, but it now looks as [...]