Our Opinion
Archived January 30, 2007

MS is a devastating disease that affects up to two million people worldwide.

Effective MS treatment options are limited.

We deserve the right to have the choice whether to take drugs to treat our disease or not to take drugs to treat our disease.

If we choose drugs to treat our disease, then we want the right to choose which drugs to take.

It is extremely important for patients to be fully informed as to the pros and cons of each treatment option.

We all have an obligation to ourselves and our families to ensure that we are properly and fully informed.

Many of us have injected ourselves with interferons or Copaxone®, and some of us have even had to resort to chemotherapy.

Despite evidence that these treatments provide marginal benefit and have significant side effects, our governments have given us the option to choose these treatments.

When an effective new drug exists that appears to be reasonably safe, we as patients would like that drug to be available as an option for our treatment.

Tysabri appears to be the most effective treatment option for MS, based on two years of clinical data, and we want the ability to choose Tysabri as our treatment option.

There is overwhelming evidence that Tysabri is extremely safe and effective.

We feel that a reasonably safe and effective treatment option should not be blocked or delayed by the FDA or the competing companies in the pharmaceutical industry that market the less effective and older treatment alternatives.

We feel the decision for our treatment should be ours, after fully informing ourselves and consulting with our physicians.

The pharmaceutical industry, the medical establishment and government regulators must give us the tools to decide on our treatment options, so we can build a future with hope.

We feel MS sufferers are being denied access to one of the most effective treatments for multiple sclerosis.

What we insist on is the right to choose to be treated with Tysabri as soon as the current review can be completed.

MS sufferers deserve choice.

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