The sales people in Florida are brilliant! We all know the clinical trials got screwed up, so the protocol to give PV is far too restrictive. We haven't been able to get urologists and oncologists to test more aggressively to make patients eligible under the Medicare formulary. So, sales has been making the rounds of the Osteopathic hospitals and practices in Florida. They've promoted the notion of "vaccines for the winter prostate cancer season" and showed these guys how they can boost their revenues by running tests anytime a snowbird tells them that the doc back home has said they have PC. They are offering sales incentives and other stuff that's really getting their attention. They are finally getting them to push the stuff by guaranteeing they won't force the billing if Medicare kicks it (something they should have been doing all along). They might even start running commercials in Florida promoting preparation for the winter prostate cancer season. Finally, we have some sharpies in sales and things we'll take off!
Why have shareholders not been told this? Why do I have to get disclosure from a saleperson on a bulletin board about why sales are so bad? I will be selling my shares on Monday and contacting an attorney about continued disclosure issues with this company. Thank you for disclosing while your own management refuses to...
Post #1 did not even mention sales. You obviously do not own any shares. Do you have an agenda to spread false and misleading information? I think you and the world would be better off if you checked yourself into a mental institution.
Post #2 from poster full of #2. I fully realize that your damaged brain does not allow you to comprehend even the most basic of concepts, but management has for over one year been constantly harping about the need for MDs to screen many more patients for metastatic disease. You are just too plain dumb to understand anything they say. I think society would be better served if you spoke to an attorney about having yourself committed permanently to mental health institution.
Yes, this has often been talked about, but in coded ways. All signs are that PV works best early, but the formulary requires seeing "late" metastatic markers. You needed find them all, so earlier testing for them can qualify people. But, PV just doesn't seem to be high enough priority for docs to do it. This is all well known, so it's not an area where you can "sue sue sue". The Florida story is amusing and false. Nobody on the sales team is anywhere near that clever. You can tell that by the sales figures.
Thank you for the clarification. It's sad that they can't have honest disclosure. Talking about it in coded ways prevents lawsuits yet keeps people from selling the stock. I will be selling anyway on Monday.
Honest disclosure would mean BoD and senior management declaring if they weren't criminals, they enabled them--and all resign. That's not going to happen, they will stick around, cover their asses, get their legal bills paid and run it into the ground as fast as they can. Very sad to all of us who have been so excited about the technology and it's possiblities.
"I think society would be better served if you spoke to an attorney about having yourself committed permanently to mental health institution. Yes, this has often been talked about, but in coded ways." No need for your attorney to speak in code about your illness. For once in your life be truthful and have yourself commited. "All signs are that PV works best early, but the formulary requires seeing "late" metastatic markers. " Provenge is not on a formulary - it is not a pill, but is an individualized treatment. Provenge currently has no "markers" for androgen independent prostate cancer. You demonstrate your complete ignorance once again. You do not work for Dendreon and you don't know anyone that works for Dendreon, so you have no ideas what sales will be. So more of your lies have just been exposed once again.
"on formulary" is a shorthand that is routinely used in the industry. That Medicare requires bone or CT scan to show cancer has moved to the bones and that it's not responding to hormonal therapy. These aren't really consistent with high effectiveness of the drug. all of this is well known, just like the large losses of last quarter that you try to cover with some nutty cash number.
google Provenge and Formulary together, you'll find the Medicare requirements and the addition to "VA formulary" in the first few hits you don't have to be a pill idiot, you just have to be prescribed
