POWER OF ATTORNEY


    Know by all these presents, that the undersigned hereby authorizes Robert
Crotty or Gregory Cox of Dendreon Corporation, a Delaware corporation
(the "Company"), to obtain a filer code from the Securities and Exchange
Commission, and execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the
undersigned's capacity as an officer, director or 10% stockholder of the
Company, Forms 3, 4, and 5, and any Amendments thereto, and cause such form(s)
to be filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant
to Section 16(a) of the Securities Act of 1934, relating to the undersigned's
beneficial ownership of securities in the Company.  The undersigned hereby
grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform
any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary or proper to be done
in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all
intents and purposes as the undersigned might or  could do if personally
present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute
or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of
attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges
that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request
of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the
undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.

    This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of, and transactions in, securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered
to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

    IN WITNESS HEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 10th day of February, 2014.


                                               /s/  Silvio Pacheco
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                                               Silvio Pacheco