<![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana - Defamer Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/defamer.com.png <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana - Defamer Comments]]> http://defamer.com Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:06:04 PDT Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:06:04 PDT http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana]]> http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana#c4870299 @JackieL: I have no knowledge about the drug, and if it's experimental, I'm sure that's true for the medical community at large. It's the use of the word "cure" with regard to a treatment that is wince-worthy. Not to mention use of PS's name and notoriety without his consent.

PaisleyPajamas

]]> 1:371481:c4870299 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:06:04 PDT <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana]]> http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana#c4851791 I assure you - TNFerade is not snake oil. I'm the person who launched the website and if you go to there you will see the article from CBS news in Denver discussing the treatment. Or you can go to GenVec's website and read results from the trial for yourself. And to address the point about a compassionate use program - that is why we started this whole thing in the first place, to pressure GenVec into starting just such a program.

Jackie Loughman

JackieL

]]> 1:371481:c4851791 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:50:32 PDT <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana]]> http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana#c4850989 Did anyone actually go to the website and watch the video? Quite heart touching. I don't think it's a scam. The daughters are doing everything and anything they can to get their mom the experimental drug (including using Patrick's name). The company won't give her the drug as they don't have a compassionate use program for it. They are not asking for any money.

JohnnyDean

]]> 1:371481:c4850989 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:55:25 PDT <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana]]> http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana#c4847726 @SteamyMcFirecrotch:

I still love you.

NotReadyForPrimeTime

]]> 1:371481:c4847726 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:11:37 PDT <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana]]> http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana#c4847709 ALL reputable drug manufacturers have compassionate use programs that are open to certain people who've been diagnosed as terminal. They use the results as research to get approval for widespread use. That alone makes me think this is 100% bullshit, the implication that no such program exists for this drug.

I once got a fundraising letter for a woman who wanted "a revolutionary treatment" for Hodgkin's Disease, a form of cancer from which I, myself was suffering at the time. It's THE most curable form of internal cancer, so I emailed and asked why she needed $15,000 for this revolution. She said it was because THIS treatment didn't make your hair fall out. I wasn't up for donating to save someone's hair, particularly as I live in a country where cancer treatment is free.

raincoaster

]]> 1:371481:c4847709 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:10:15 PDT <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana]]> http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana#c4844808 Snake Oil. Dammit.

CourageousCoward

]]> 1:371481:c4844808 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:30:28 PDT <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana]]> http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana#c4844801 @NotReadyForPrimeTime: I think that's what was injected in Priscilla Presley's face: Patrick Swayze's Roadhouse Saloon Sanke Oil. It's good fer what ails ya'.

CourageousCoward

]]> 1:371481:c4844801 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:30:12 PDT <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana]]> http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana#c4843980 I hate to see Patrick Swayze's name used in a snake oil scam. I don't see any good coming from this.

NotReadyForPrimeTime

]]> 1:371481:c4843980 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:56:14 PDT <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana]]> http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana#c4843388 There's no such thing as a "cure" for any disease. Treatment, yes, but cure? That's language used by snake oil salesmen, I'm afraid.

PaisleyPajamas

]]> 1:371481:c4843388 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:35:06 PDT <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana]]> http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana#c4842180 Well meaning but curiously strange.

Superstarsteve

]]> 1:371481:c4842180 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:51:41 PDT <![CDATA['Cure Possible For Patrick Swayze' -- According To A Fan In Indiana]]> http://defamer.com/371481/cure-possible-for-patrick-swayze-++-according-to-a-fan-in-indiana#c4840146 Cure for cancer? We need a cure for aging if that photo is anything to go by.

Patrick f'ing Swayze... has it been that long?

Benny

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