Well, another year has past since our historic first time ever (in any medical conference) live video bloggingat ECTRIMS 2009 in Dusseldorf, Germany. This year, ECTRIMS (European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis) was held on October 13 - 16, 2010 in Goteborg, Sweden and once again I filmed video blogs directly to you.
What made this year special was that aside from interviewing other MS professionals (Dr. Gary Cutter at the Consortium of MS Centers or CMSC Annual Meeting), we had other neurologists make videos with MSWorld, as well. The excitement is spreading and this can only be a good think for people with MS and their families.
For the next few postings, I will highlight important abstracts and presentations.
It is very difficult t wrap our heads around the concept of disease modification, but living longer is something that we can all understand. As Daniel Defoe first wrote in The Political History of the Devil, 1726:"Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed." Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase n a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789, which was re-printed in The Works of Benjamin Franklin, 1817: "'In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." In an abstract by Reder et al. entitled: Survival analysis 21 years after the initiation of the pivotal interferon beta-1b trial in patients with RRMS, the authors compared the survival of those originally randomized to Betaseron/Betaferon to those initially placed on placebo; people with MS who were originally placed on Interferon ß-1b had increased survival.
This is significant because no longer do we have to say that this medication may modify the disease course, but that it may actually make you live longer.
This is another reason to start treatment early.
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