Quick update
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:18 pm
Hi all,
Just a quick word on the Campath trials. The one year report was sent out to either he FDA or ILEX pharmasudicals (I’m not sure who it was going to) but the NP who wrote it showed it to me when I was in for my quarterly appointment. The report was for the folk’s who are on the “2nd study”…. the people who were on the various CRABs drugs but weren’t having any success with them so they were put on Campath. Dredging my memory to a month ago (so don’t quote me on this) the numbers fell out like this: of the 15 people at my clinic on the 2nd study there were a total of 56 relapses between them all in the previous two years before being dosed with Campath and since the dosing there have been a total of three relapses among the entire group over the last year.
I’m on the first study and we’re coming up on the 2nd anniversary of the beginning of that study, but as of yet they haven’t released the protocol of what’s going to be done with us yet when we reach our two year anniversary. Are they are going to give us another dose at our two year anniversary (it's a three year study) or just let us go on without another dose and study us to see what happens… Kinda hammers home the point that I’m a lab rat participating in a phase II clinical trial
Anyways, the report I got a glimpse of certainly gives me hope Guess
I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed. Please feel free to ignore any spelling or grammar errors.... it was a long day at work and my brain isn't firing an all cylinders
Rat
Just a quick word on the Campath trials. The one year report was sent out to either he FDA or ILEX pharmasudicals (I’m not sure who it was going to) but the NP who wrote it showed it to me when I was in for my quarterly appointment. The report was for the folk’s who are on the “2nd study”…. the people who were on the various CRABs drugs but weren’t having any success with them so they were put on Campath. Dredging my memory to a month ago (so don’t quote me on this) the numbers fell out like this: of the 15 people at my clinic on the 2nd study there were a total of 56 relapses between them all in the previous two years before being dosed with Campath and since the dosing there have been a total of three relapses among the entire group over the last year.
I’m on the first study and we’re coming up on the 2nd anniversary of the beginning of that study, but as of yet they haven’t released the protocol of what’s going to be done with us yet when we reach our two year anniversary. Are they are going to give us another dose at our two year anniversary (it's a three year study) or just let us go on without another dose and study us to see what happens… Kinda hammers home the point that I’m a lab rat participating in a phase II clinical trial
Anyways, the report I got a glimpse of certainly gives me hope Guess
I'll just have to keep my fingers crossed. Please feel free to ignore any spelling or grammar errors.... it was a long day at work and my brain isn't firing an all cylinders
Rat