A long-awaited national trial of a controversial experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis has been given the go-ahead and will soon begin recruiting patients in B.C. and Quebec.
BY VANCOUVER SUNA long-awaited national trial of a controversial experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis has been given the go-ahead and will soon begin recruiting patients in B.C. and Quebec.
The $6-million trial of "liberation therapy," a type of balloon angioplasty that widens the jugular and azygous veins, has received ethical approval to proceed, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced Friday.
About 100 people in B.C. and Quebec are expected to take part in the trial, which is a collaboration between the federal government, British Columbia, Quebec and the MS Society of Canada.
"I think it's extremely important to investigate it in Canada," said Dr. Bill Code, 59, a former anesthesiologist diagnosed with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis in 1996.
Code, a father of three who lives in Duncan, had the procedure in Newport Beach, Calif., in November 2010. He said it was worth the $7,500 cost, plus flight expenses and $5,400 for specialized MRI testing in Buffalo, N.Y.
"It was outstandingly effective for me. It limited my headaches - I had tons of those - it really improved my fatigue and it took away most of my cognitive fog, or clouded thinking," he said.
Code now cycles up to 80 kilo-metres a day and operates a small organic farm on his Vancouver Island property.
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