Guest guest Posted October 4, 2002 Report Share Posted October 4, 2002 HI, I found this article on my favorite med.(NOT) CYTOXAN I thought somebody might find it interesting. I am trying to find all the info and hopefully something positive about this awful drug I am on. NANCY Health Newsfeed # 1359 UPDATE ON CYTOXAN Americans get a lot of medical news. Novel approaches, bold experiments. If it's all so great, why aren't we curing more diseases? In fact, we are. Aplastic anemia is a case in point. This autoimmune disorder causes bone marrow to stop making red and white blood cells and platelets. An unusual drug called Cytoxan can get rid of malfunctioning cells of the immune system while sparing the healthy ones. The effect is a sort of " reboot " of the whole disease-fighting system. In studies at s Hopkins Cytoxan has essentially cured aplastic anemia patients. It shows great promise for other auto- immune disorders as well, such as lupus. Dr. Brodsky is running many of the clinical trials. We're learning its safety, how to give it better, and where to use it in the spectrum of the diseases. And I think what we're going to see over the next decade is it's going to be used earlier and earlier in some of the more severe autoimmune diseases. :14 Cytoxan is proof that medical science doesn't just hold diseases at bay. Sometimes it beats them. At the s Hopkins Medical Institutions, I'm Tom Haederle reporting. Copyright 2000 The s Hopkins University. All rights reserved. Search Health NewsFeed Health NewsFeed Home | Hopkins Medicine Home Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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