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Biotech / Medical : MDDM....New possible cancer treatment.
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To: paulmcg0 who wrote (10)2/24/1999 12:47:00 PM
From: James A. Meadows   of 74
 
I talked to a guy at the IR firm your referring to - Brian @ Public Image, Inc. (sorry, didn't get a last name). Anyway, he said that the reason that they didn't publish the Head Office phone number was due to the ridiculous number of calls they receive from people who have cancer or whose family member has cancer.

I'll paraphrase his words: "These people are all looking for the magic cure, which I totally empathize with. Let's face it, if my mother had cancer, I probably be camped on Merck's or Glaxo's front doorstep."

"The problem is, the product still must go through the FDA Clinical Trial process. There are no shortcuts. Even though they have had phenomenal results in previous clinical trials, it is still a year or two before it's ready for prime-time."

"Dr. Urban, by necessity, must steel himself against the numerous (hundreds) of requests he personally receives from these cancer patients/family members. Heart-wrenching as it is, if Urban were to start handing treatments out the back door - and was discovered - he'd screw his career and reputation forever."

So there it is... He said that they act as somewhat of a screening process, and that if a medical body or media group wanted more information, he would see that they were contacted immediately.

Makes sense.

jam0123
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