Rituxan (rituximab) experiences

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Hello everyone in this great group,

Hope your recent days have been good and kind...

This is just an update request posted on behalf of my friend with

active,resistant rheumatoid,and other medical conditions (chiefly pre-existing

lung problems from childhood,(bronchiectasis, asthma) for any experiences with

Rituxan ,good and bad, as she approaches making a decision whether to go for

this.

I have seen first hand very encouraging results with this drug in a different

field (haematology/oncology; (I am a retired doc in this field) but am only too

aware the scenario is very different here. Could not begin to weigh up the risk

/benefits here and definitely must not advise... It must be my friend's informed

decision, with her medic's imput. But they don't have much experience of similar

cases to hers with other pathologies.

The decision boils down to:

If you are in the 1 per cent or less, certain complications could be

devastating.. yet her present quality of life is so poor and changed at 60 when

she was previously fit and active.

Your imput would be appreciated.Thank you.

Chris

UK,for friend without computer

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