29192 Landmark Study in The Lancet: Patients Treated With Betaseron® After...

Landmark Study in The Lancet: Patients Treated With Betaseron® After First MS Attack Experienced Significant Delay in MS Progression Patients treated with Betaseron® (interferon beta-1b) shortly after their first clinical MS event or "attack" showed a 40 percent lower risk of developing confirmed disability progression compared to patients in whom treatment was delayed. The results—which were fast-tracked and published in The Lancet this week—provide the first controlled evidence that delaying Betaseron treatment has an effect on later accumulation of disability, as observed over the three-year study period. No other MS therapy has demonstrated this effect in this early patient population. The BENEFIT study (BEtaseron in Newly Emerging multiple sclerosis For Initial Treatment), sponsored by Bayer HealthCare, compared Betaseron treatment initiated after a first clinical event with delayed treatment. The study was conducted at 98 sites in 20 countries and included a total of 468 patients.

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Google Video | August 3, 2007

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