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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>One of our new members of PCCN W-W who has had a radical prostatectomy has been prescribed 2 drugs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Casodex -tablets<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Lupron – needle injected.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph>The cost of the Lupron is given by his pharmacist as $1300/ shot with 4 required thru a yearlong treatment. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone know of any entities that can:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]> Assist with the cost (Trillium??)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:54.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]> Make it available on a compassionate basis (i.e. pharmaceutical company)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Wikipedia indicates pharma companies making it are:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>BAYER<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Telmar (as Eligard)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span><![endif]>Abbott Laboratories (as Lupron).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you can provide information that may be helpful, contact John Baxter direct at <a href="mailto:jhsb@sympatico.ca">jhsb@sympatico.ca</a> and copy me (<a href="mailto:glen46nor@gmail.com">glen46nor@gmail.com</a> )on an info basis.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Taken care,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Glen <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chair PCCN W-W<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>