PETITION - Assess Bazedoxifene (BZA) in treating breast cancer

slv58, Anne45 - THANK YOU!!!!  For a while the signatures were stucky below 250 and hopefully the word has spread now!!  Please feel free to forward the petition to your friends and we can keep it active. 

Rose12 - I was hoping to get at least 1000 by the end of the month but maybe high hopes......  I've seen other petitions get thousands of signatures but maybe it was their circulation network.  Our petition is really grassroots! 

Yes - Moderators moved it to the 'Advocacy Forum' located at the very bottomof the list.  Unfortunately you can only access it by using the 'Chat Rooms - Jump to a Forum' menu.  There are so many forums that the scroll bar doesn't display it.  So I don't believe it is very visible to many posters who SCROLL down the forum list to view/select where they wish to read/post. 

We just passed 500 signatures!!  Hopefully our petition is continuing to spread!   

Yeah!!  Lots of recent signatures from CANADA!!!!  Thank you!!!  Pfizer has a site there too!!

Update - I printed off 3 copies of our petition and forwarded via certified mail to:

Pfizer Corporate Office:

1) Customer Service and Product Inquiries 

2) Geno Germano, President and General Manager, Specialty Care and Oncology

3)Robert Abraham, Chief Scientific officer in the Oncology Research Unit in research and development

Received a Phone call this morning from a Pfizer Pharma rep.  Very polite - she explained to me that the FDA has not approved BZA and each country has different regulatory agencies for drug approval and access.  She kept stating to visit their website and the clinicaltrails.gov for patients who are interested in trials.  I kept trying to steer the conversation back to BZA to get compassionate access here in USA.  I emphasized there are thousands of patients here who are interested in access to this specific medication.  I told her there are numerous patients calling Pfizer and who have signed our petition.  As patients we do not want to be ignored. 

I simply could not get any information about the future of BZA in terms of what Pfizer was doing with this drug???  During our conversation I got the feeling it was so general that we could have been talking about ANY DRUG.  Frankly I felt like I was talking to a politician who just deflects you and never gives you an answer.  She spoke in very general terms and I actually wondered how much she knew about any research for BZA.  I did mention Duke University Medical School -- she did not comment - so was she even aware of it???  Either way paper copies of our petition have been sent to Pfizer as well.  This phone call was a response to my contacting their Customer Services Dept on their website.

Our petition is still active collecting with daily signatures. Hopefully I will hear back from someone at Pfizer other than this Customer Service Dept. I figure if they are now aware of our petition and see ongoing activity - maybe they will not ignore us.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131107132827.htm

The most frequently mutated gene across all types of cancers is a gene called p53. Unfortunately it has been difficult to directly target this gene with drugs. Now a multi-institutional research team, led by Dr. Lewis Cantley and investigators at Weill Cornell Medical College, has identified a family of enzymes they say is crucial for the growth of cancers that have genetic aberrations in p53. Targeting these enzymes with novel agents might prevent the growth of p53 mutant cancers, thereby benefiting a broad spectrum of cancer patients, including those with breast, ovarian, lung, colorectal and brain tumors.