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National trials for CCSVI treatment for MS patients to begin in November

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Friday, Sep. 28, 2012 at 12:16 PM | Comments: 0

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Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq

A national clinical trial to test a controversial treatment for multiple sclerosis has received the necessary medical and ethical approvals to proceed, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced today.

Recruitment for participants will begin Nov. 1 in Vancouver and Montreal. Participants will also be sought in Winnipeg and Quebec City, once ethics approval is granted for these centres to join. That could occur later in November.

Altogether, 100 MS patients will take part in the first phase of the clinical trials.

Dr. Anthony Traboulsee, medical director of the UBC Hospital MS Clinic, and his collaborators received ethics approvals from institutions in British Columbia and Québec to undertake the clinical trial for Chronic Cerebrospinal Venous Insufficiency (CCSVI) in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS).

CCSVI is a term used to describe the problem with blood flow in neck veins. Some doctors believe it plays a role in causing MS.

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