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Old 11-12-2008, 12:03 AM
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Last I heard, there were about 9,500 people (which isn't a mean, but the only # we have to work with) who are (or have been) on Tysabri for 18+ months.
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Do you have credible source for the information I bolded above, Cherie? The 9500 people on tysabri for 18+ months? I've not found any credible source for that statistic and neither has my Biogen Rep.

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Actually I thought that was probably too high of an estimate, since Biogen said there were only about 6600 back in August:

http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=8&gl=ca

But, I had run across a several articles that claimed 9500 (with 35,000 in total, same # RW mentioned), so I gave it those reports the benefit of the doubt:

“Last week, Biogen reported that 35,500 patients are on Tysabri at the end of September, with about 9,500 patients on the therapy for 18 months or longer.”

http://www.beurs.nl/nieuws/artikel.p...275803&taal=US
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/...ap5629776.html

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