is the slogan of Underwear Affair, a fundraising and awareness event initiated in Canada and now reaching Los Angeles and beyond.
People hit the streets of Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Toronto and Los Angeles dressed in everything from briefs and boy-shorts to t-shirts and tracksuits to help fund life-saving [...] (Source: psa-rising.com/blog)

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Want your city to run a great Prostate Cancer Awareness event?
Watch this 6 min. video of Baltimore’s Great Prostate Cancer Challenge, Sept 14, 2008.
Webpage for their 2009 event.
Filmed, edited and produced by David Hercenberg with Doc.Umented Video Productions, LLC (Source: psa-rising.com/blog)

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â??These results confirm the clinical value of Provenge to prolong survival in patients with advanced prostate cancer,â? said Dr. Philip Kantoff, head of the prostate cancer program and chief of the division of solid tumor oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and a principal investigator of the Provenge study, in a [...] (Source: psa-rising.com/blog)

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â?? Extended Median Survival by 4.1 Months and Increased 3-Year Survival by 38 Percent Compared to Placebo â??
â?? First Active Cellular Immunotherapy for Cancer to Prolong Survival â??
â?? Company to Host Webcast at 5:30 pm ET â??
CHICAGO and SEATTLE, April 28, 2009 – Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) today announced that its pivotal Phase 3 [...] (Source: psa-rising.com/blog)

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African American men continue to have the highest rates of prostate cancer on the planet and the greatest risk of dying of the disease. An award-winning documentary entitled The Silent Killer: Prostate Cancer, now available on DVD, shows African American men sharing support and info about screening, life-saving choices, and quality of life.
Watch a [...] (Source: psa-rising.com/blog)

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A four part interview with  Hy Levitsky M.D., professor of oncology and tumor immunology at Johns Hopkins Medical School and co-inventor GVAX anti-cancer vaccine, is posted on Dendreon Investor Village website.
Interview conducted by rufustoehee, a dentist and Dendreon investor, published 4/22/2009.
By way of introduction, Dr Levitsky’s bio is posted alphabetically downpage among those of other [...] (Source: psa-rising.com/blog)

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As background to the April 28 AUA medical conference presentation on Provenge (sipuleucal-T) immunology, here’s an audiocast of Dendreon CEO Mitchell Gold talking about their lead product, Provenge, at an investors’ conference, Biotechnology Industry Organization BIO CEO & Investor Conference, February 19, 2009.
To hear the audio click the green button. Your computer media player (Windows [...] (Source: psa-rising.com/blog)

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Discussion with Leading U.S. Experts
Alvin Chin, Prostate Cancer Survivor & Advocate, Virginia Prostate Coalition, joins  oncologists Howard Scher MD, Donald S. Coffey, PhD,  Peter S. Nelson, MD and representatives from research and the Pharma industry  for a round table discussion April 23.
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Dendreon’s prostate cancer vaccine significantly prolonged the overall survival among 500 men with advanced, metastic  prostate cancer  compared to a placebo, the company said Tuesday.
Results were “robust” and “unambiguous,” a spokesman said during today’s (Tues April 14) company broadcast conference call with biotech investment analysts.
“The successful outcome from the Phase 3 IMPACT study provides validation [...] (Source: psa-rising.com/blog)

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Received from Halle Tecco, founder of YOGA BEAR, a non profit
offering free yoga classes for cancer survivors:
Hello, my name is Halle and I’m the Executive Director of Yoga Bear, a
non-profit that provides free yoga to cancer survivors across the US,
through 125 partner yoga studios.  Most of our participants are female,
and we’re trying to get more [...] (Source: psa-rising.com/blog)

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