[Mpd-oz] Clinical Trial

[ken at webwords.net.au]

Dear Joy
Good luck for the trial.  You can find out more about the company here:
http://www.sbio.com/main/default.asp

There will be a few trials happening in Australia over the next few months.
The other one I am aware of is the Cytopia trial that will be happening at
Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal North Shore Hospital and the Mayo in
Minnesota. They announced 2 days ago that Dr Ayalew Tefferi, Professor of
Medicine and Hematology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, as Clinical
Study Chair for the company’s Phase I/II study in patients with
myelofibrosis.

Cheers
Ken



Original Message:
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From: Joy joy at swedosh.com
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:37:37 +1000
To: mpd-oz at mpd-oz.org
Subject: [Mpd-oz] Clinical Trial


Hi all on the oz-mpd site,

I would like to inform you of a clinical trial that is going to be
conducted in Melbourne at the Royal Melbourne Hospital.  My doctor has
referred me to it.

It will be conducted at the Royal Melbourne Hospital - called "A Phase 1/2
Study of Oral SB1518 in Subjects with Chronic Idiopathic Myelofibrosis". 
This study is being sponsored by a company called S*BIO Pte Ltd (Singapore)
together with S*BIO Australia Pty Ltd.  It has only been trialled on
animals at this stage so I will be a guinea pig.  It works on the JK2
'gene' ( or whatever it's called).  I'm not sure when it's starting at this
stage as the Peter Mac cancer hospital has the first patient and I'll be
the second.  I've been on ifn since 2000 but it's not reducing my spleen
anymore.

I will keep you all informed as I go.  I must admit I'm a bit nervous as up
to date, although the ifn hasn't shrunk my spleen it has kept my blood
levels "normal" to such an extent that my doctor said someone looking at my
cbc would think there was nothing wrong with me.  So now I've gone off the
ifn as you need a month to get it out of your system, and I wonder how my
blood counts will fare without it.

Best wishes to all,
Joy Swedosh (69 y.o. diagnosed 1994 with PV, 2000 with MF) 

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