Re: Skip - Trial dates

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Hi Skip,

Regarding your question about when they will kick you off a trial -

there is no definite answer. You can be kicked off a trial at any

time - at the discretion of the drug company and/or the doctor

overseeing you. A trial patient has the right to stop a trial at any

point as well.

Generally speaking, once a drug is approved, the drug company is still

required to collect data for several more years (I believe its 5 but I

may be off.) so a certain number of patients must be followed. If it

chooses, the drug company can continue to collect data beyond the

required data for as long as the drug company wishes and as long at it

has patients to follow. :-) The decision as to who they keep on the

drug after it is approved is also at the discretion of the company.

I was on the STI trial via NYC but was not kept on trial after the

drug was approved.

I am now on Sprycel via Montreal. I have been on the trial since it

began in Canada, March 2005. The drug is about to be approved (this

week or next) and it appears that myself and many Canadian patients

will not be continuing on the trial so I will soon have to be paying

for the drug!

If you continue to do well on Tasigna (AMN-107), you will likely stay

on the drug until it is approved. Then you may continue to be

followed or you may end up purchasing it.

Hope this helps,

dx 11/98

Ottawa, ON

(formerly from Halifax) I love your neck of the world!

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> Thanks Zavie for the information about the talk today

> I had forgot it completely, I must admit that Dr. was

> great he explained things I had not heard about even

> though I have had this bug for almost 30 years.

> I should have tried to talk to him, I had questions

> but they did not come until the end of the talk.

> I was wondering when they will kick you of a trial

> drug, even though I feel great, my counts are up and

> down like the weather here in this province. Guess we

> are in for a bit of a storm. I have to see my Onc

> Tues and then see surgeon Wed for a portacath. have

> a great day up in cultured Ottawa

> SkipD

> Dx'ed 1978

> 26 years on Myleran

> then on Gleevec now Nilotinib

> http://easyskip.tripod.com

> my running comment on my counts

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