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Biotech / Medical : MGI Pharma MOGN New patents, anti cancer

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To: scaram(o)uche who wrote (1067)7/16/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: lrb  Read Replies (1) of 1826
 
>> You mean the entire $500K? <<

A bit sarcastic, are we? I'd like to concentrate on Salagen for a
bit. They launched for Sjogren's in April, so they had essentially
a full quarter's sales effort. The product was already on the
shelves, so there was no manufacturing ramp-up or channel to fill.
They said in May that "the acceptance of using Salagen(R) Tablets as a
treatment for the symptoms of dry mouth in Sjogren's syndrome patients
has been excellent." Do you consider the $500K less than excellent?

MGI believes 50,000 Sjogren's patients could benefit from Salagen.
I don't recall what the product costs; how many patients does $500K
represent?

I had the idea that the Sjogren's market was so much larger than
head&neck, and the need filled by Salagen for these patients so
pressing, that we would see a much larger jump in Salagen sales. So
is this just my inexperience showing, or is there cause for concern
that the Sjogren's sales may not ultimately be what we had hoped for?

I don't know how much of this was addressed in the conference call,
because the Q&A portion of the recording is so full of drop-outs as to
be unintelligible.

Thanks in advance for any responses.
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