MAJOR MS BREAKTHROUGH for patients that medicate or will medicate in the future.
A new blood test can identify types of MS and if treatments are working.
• the test can detect your phenotype (RRMS, SPMS, PPMS)
• the test can also tell if your medication is working (our cheapest medication is $30k/year, but requires 13 IV infusion sessions per year. Our cheapest self-administered medications are over $60k/year).
• this test will literally save billions of dollars and years of frustration trying to determine if a medication is working or not
• there is a downside and that is treatments will now be limited to your phenotype. Before doctors would leave you classified in the RRMS category to leave you on a medication that MIGHT benefit you. Now with a definitive test coming out this practice will be greatly curtailed
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-0...36?pfmredir=sm
A new blood test can identify types of MS and if treatments are working.
• the test can detect your phenotype (RRMS, SPMS, PPMS)
• the test can also tell if your medication is working (our cheapest medication is $30k/year, but requires 13 IV infusion sessions per year. Our cheapest self-administered medications are over $60k/year).
• this test will literally save billions of dollars and years of frustration trying to determine if a medication is working or not
• there is a downside and that is treatments will now be limited to your phenotype. Before doctors would leave you classified in the RRMS category to leave you on a medication that MIGHT benefit you. Now with a definitive test coming out this practice will be greatly curtailed
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-0...36?pfmredir=sm
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