Moral Hazards Amok

Why Did Dendreon Execs Cash Out on Friday?

I am absolutely astounded at what shorts will do to try and kill a technology that is a quantum leap forward towards a cure for cancer. RegExpert, it's so sad that you were caught with your pants down so short on DNDN, but does that really justify hysterical statements of FUD such as this?

"Plus, did you see the vaccine administration procedure??? It is very cumbersome!! One needs to take out patients cancer cells, modify it with provenge and then re-inject back to the patients............this is too cumbersome for a 4 months survival extension......."

A couple of trips to a specialist is to too cumbersome? Would you rather these poor souls simply take Taxotere, whose side effects include hair loss, anemia, low levels of white blood cells, blood in the stool, severe mouth sores, and severe vomiting and/or diarrhea?

Also, 4 months of life extension is only the beginning with this technology because down the road Dendreon, or someone will find a way to lever this type of technology into much greater lengths of survival, and probably even cancer cures in many cases.

For the shorts who are trying to make a buck here by killing this technology consider this; most of you at sometime during your lifetime will watch someone you care about or even love die horribly from cancer. Provenge is a technology that just might have prevented that. Was a couple of dollars worth it?