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Cyclophosphamide promising against multiple sclerosisTreatment with an immune-suppressing drug may help people with the incurable disease multiple sclerosis, researchers say. Their small study showed that treatment with high doses of cyclophosphamide, a generic cancer drug that has been around for half a century, cut the level of disability in MS patients, improved their physical functioning and reduced the number of brain lesions related to the condition.

Nine patients were tracked for two years after getting the drug. Five of them had no signs of disease activity, and the other four showed dramatic improvement, said Dr. Douglas Kerr of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore........................

For the complete report please go to MSRC: MS Research News : Drugs : Cyclophosphamide
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Name: Paresh Comment:
Immune suppression is tangibly safe and tangibly destructive simultaneously. If you compromise one set of T-cells, who are triggering adversive reactions, then those that do housekeeping will also be affected.
2008-06-14 15:27:12
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