Recycline -Combination Rebif + Minocycline - Phase II completed recently. The lead investigator, Sorensen, said the results will be released in October at the ECTRIMS conference in Lyon.
***update from Lyon = Fail/no efficacy
http://www.peerviewpress.com/adding-min ... lerosis-pr
Recycline - Combination Rebif + Minocycline [Fail]
Recycline - Combination Rebif + Minocycline [Fail]
Last edited by 12321 on Thu Nov 08, 2012 11:59 am, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Recycline - Combination Rebif + Minocycline [Fail]
It's a strange conclusion seeing they said-
"More patients in the minocycline group withdrew because of adverse events (20% vs 32%), although more in the placebo arm withdrew because of lack of efficacy (8% vs 1%).
These high withdrawal rates, and the relatively low annualised relapse rates in both treatment arms also contributed to the study being underpowered."
There's a lesson in every study but the conclusion is more definite than study by the look of it.
Regards
"More patients in the minocycline group withdrew because of adverse events (20% vs 32%), although more in the placebo arm withdrew because of lack of efficacy (8% vs 1%).
These high withdrawal rates, and the relatively low annualised relapse rates in both treatment arms also contributed to the study being underpowered."
There's a lesson in every study but the conclusion is more definite than study by the look of it.
Regards
Re: Recycline - Combination Rebif + Minocycline [Fail]
Efficacy definition: "Efficacy is the capacity to produce an effect. It has different specific meanings in different fields. In medicine, it is the ability of an intervention or drug to reproduce a desired effect in expert hands and under ideal circumstances."Scott1 wrote:It's a strange conclusion seeing they said-
"More patients in the minocycline group withdrew because of adverse events (20% vs 32%), although more in the placebo arm withdrew because of lack of efficacy (8% vs 1%).
These high withdrawal rates, and the relatively low annualised relapse rates in both treatment arms also contributed to the study being underpowered."
There's a lesson in every study but the conclusion is more definite than study by the look of it.
Regards
"Beneficial trends toward minocycline add-on that did not reach significance were seen in the annual rate of qualifying relapses (0.28 vs 0.18 for placebo and minocycline, respectively; P = .37), clinically disease-free patients (29.6% vs 47.8%; P = .22), and annual rate of reported relapses (0.40 vs 0.27; P = .08)."
You could measure how "definite" the results are by looking at the p value. And while the p value of what they consider a "qualifying" relapse is .37, the reported relapse P value is .08.
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