Re: Fwd: [RadInfoReq #367] Beksar treatment on news last night

[Chris Alston <alstonc@odrge.odr.georgetown.edu>]

See the special supplement to the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol 39, #8,
pp 1S - 33S, August 1998, with articles by (variously): Wahl, Richard L,
Moskowitz, Craig H, Colcher, David, Kroll, Stewart, Zasadny, Kenneth R,
Kaminski, Mark, et alia. Basically, what's happening is that investigators
at the U Mich Med Center, and Coulter Pharmaceutical, Inc., have a
radioimmunotherapeutic agent for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, in the form of an
iodine-131 labelled, anti-B1 antibody, that is in Phase III trials. My
understanding is that it is also ready for commercial production. The
University of Michigan's medical website is at:
http://www.umich.edu/UM-Health.html. You could also try calling directory
information for Ann Arbor, and asking for the physician referral number at
the Med Center, or the Nuclear Medicine Division, or the cancer center, or
maybe the hospital operator has a number reserved for people seeking to
enter clinical trials.

P.S. Judging by the authorial listings on the articles, Richard Wahl, MD, is
the principal nuclear physician. P.P.S. I don't know what "Bekzar" might be.

Good luck.


At 02:00  11/02/98 -0600, you wrote:
>This question was posed on RADINFO.  Does anyone have any information on 
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>I need to know who to contact.  My husband has non-hotckins lymphoma low 
>grade....We did not get the spelling of the experimental treatment that 
>sounds like "Bekzar".  Lab 4420 at the University of Michigan.  We saw 
>this on "Dateline" last night.  Please send us info asap on this 
>experimental treatment which is injected radiation that detect the bad 
>cells and destroys them, with little after affect...thank you in advance 
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