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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: VLAD who wrote (19031)	2/23/1999 4:47:00 PM
From: VLAD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23519

Some food for thought: CNBC just ran the Bob Dole ED commercial again. I noticed that he said that when he had prostate cancer that "I was concerned about ED". He never claimed that he actually had ED. Studies independent of Pfizer have clearly demonstrated that Viagra doesn't work in impotence induced by prostatectomy even if one side of the nerve bundles are spared in surgery: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and Viagra's efficacy as compared to MUSE in post prostatectomy induced erectile dysfunction: vivus.com And note that the MUSE study was not funded by Vivus and done independent of Vivus input by the most prestegous hospital in the world. So I would like to know a few answers regarding Bob Dole's prostatectomy and anyone who knows the answers is welcome to jump in: 1)Was his prostatectomy a successful bilateral nerve bundle sparing proceedure? 2)If so did Bob Dole ever actually suffer from moderate to severe ED? I would expect some form of at least transient ED from post surgical inflammation even if his surgery was a success. 3)How much is Pfizer paying Bob Dole for his so called ED educational campaign? 4)Now that Bob Dole is completely healed from his post op prostatectomy, does he even need Viagra to maintain an erection? I have a hunch that Bob Dole was placed into the Viagra clinical trials shortly after his prostatectomy which was a successful bilateral nerve bundle sparing proceedure and he may have never suffered from ED to begin with. I also have a hunch that regardless of his prostatectomy, that at his age he may very well had some decreased ability to maintain an erection from the natural effects of aging. The bottom line is that if Viagra has been shown not to work in men who have had prostatectomies where both nerve bundles have not been spared then either Bob Dole is being less than true concerning his ED or else he had a successful bilateral nerve sparing surgery and never had to be seriously woried about getting ED from having his nerves destroyed during his surgery.