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Monday
New Hope for Patients With Aggressive MS:
"A new combination treatment regime, for patients with aggressive forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), is offering new hope to a group of patients who would otherwise be at high risk of early disability according to British research due to be published in next month's Journal of Neurology August 2006 (currently available on line). The treatment regime, consisting of a limited course of mitoxantrone (an immunosuppressant normally used to treat cancer) followed by long-term glatiramer acetate (Copaxone(R) - one of two classes of disease modifying drugs for use in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis), has proven so successful in this early trial that a full controlled study is now being initiated at 10 centres across the UK to examine the combination further. Investigators are now looking to enrol suitable patients with MS...." |