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The provincial government has received almost 600 applications from multiple sclerosis patients interested in participating in a U.S.-based clinical trial.
In mid-January, the government invited applications in conjunction with its pledge to spend $2.2 million to cover costs for patients selected to participate in the research trial of the socalled "liberation therapy" taking place in Albany, N.Y.
Mark Docherty, a Saskatchewan Party MLA who received the treatment for multiple sclerosis in Bulgaria, said Tuesday he isn't surprised by the level of interest from Saskatchewan people.
"I figured that people with MS would be more than happy to add their names to the list," he said. "I think we're all supportive of this. It's very exciting for everybody throughout the province. All they're hoping for is to find out a cause and a cure. We've got to get some answers toward 'Why?' We've been asking that as an MS population forever."
Applications will close on Feb. 24 for Saskatchewan patients interested in volunteering for the trial. Applications can be made online or by phone, Docherty said, noting he encourages people to participate.
The two-year, double-blind clinical trial at Albany Medical Centre has room for 86 Saskatchewan MS patients. As of Tuesday, about 589 people had submitted applications.
Saskatchewan has one of the highest incidences of MS in the world, at 340 per 100,000 residents, the government says.
An estimated 3,500 people in the province have been diagnosed with the neurological disease, which causes the communication ability of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord to be impaired or destroyed.
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