Sunday, 1 April 2012

American Cancer Society-Health Regulators-Prostate Cancer-Cancer Therapy-Loud Protests

Insight: New doubts about prostate-cancer vaccine Provenge

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Prostate cancer vaccine Provenge has long incited passions unlike any other cancer therapy. Doctors who raised doubts about it received death threats. Health regulators and lawmakers faced loud protests at their offices. A physician at the American Cancer Society was so intimidated by Provenge partisans that he yanked a skeptical discussion of it from his blog. The vitriol dissipated in April 2010, when the U.S. ... read more..

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