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CERE-120 phase II trial results - shocking
SAN DIEGO, Nov 26, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ceregene, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, today reported clinical data from a double-blind, controlled Phase 2 trial of CERE-120 in 58 patients with advanced Parkinson's disease. The trial did not demonstrate an appreciable difference between patients treated with CERE-120 versus those in the control group. Both groups showed an approximate 7 point improvement in the protocol-defined primary endpoint (Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale- motor off score at 12 months), relative to a mean at baseline of approximately 39 points. Both groups had a substantial number of patients who demonstrated a meaningful clinical improvement from baseline. CERE-120 appeared to be safe and well tolerated.
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First Spheramine then Ceregene ...
this has been a really bad year. Looks like Neurologix and Prosavin are our last gene therapy hopes.
Then what ..... Neil. |
Ceregene Results
As someone who participated in this trial am I disappointed? Yes Am I shocked? No. Will I take part in another trial? That I'd have to think about.
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Dottie how are you?
Dottie, How did you do on CERE-120? I know the trial hasn't been unblinded, but did you feel like you got the treatment? Or did you think you got the placebo / sham surgery?
take care :hug: |
for Carolyn
I know you felt you got the real thing. You are totally off meds now, right?
What does this mean for the rest of us?? Is our only chance for a new treatment to take part in a clinical trial - because even if it works (for some) the majority don't get benefit ... so it turns out that only a few "lucky ones" in the trial get something that might work? Is Parkinson's so different with each person that these substances only work on a small subset of pwp? just wondering... |
don't forget AMT
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received the placebo/sham surgery. This was verified last week. Dottie |
parkinson's variability - to jeanb's question
this may be old news to folks - i tune in so rarely i am a little out of touch, i am sure - but it appears that there are different types of mutations that cause different types of breast cancer - one mutation, HER2, which results in a particularly aggressive cancer, is responsible for 25% of breast cancer cases, and a drug, herceptin, has been developed to treat HER2 cancer specifically. in clinical trials, women treated with herceptin for one year had - depending on what other therapies they also had - a 33-52% lower rate of recurrence.
so, it is possible that what we call a single disease can arise from multiple sources, and it is possible to identify and treat some - and, in theory, eventually all - of those sources. i believe this is where interest in pd subtypes comes from, in addition to the search for genetic clues. |
Dottie
Hi Dottie, I was reading about your experience in the clinical trial. Did this help you get off your meds? Thanks
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Hii Jim -
My meds haven't been reduced -- I'm taking the same meds I've taken for years. Duri ng the trial I was given Lorazepan so that I could have an MRI. So, no MRI/no Lorazepan. |
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