DALLAS – Patients with multiple sclerosis have likely already heard the worst about their treatment options from the Internet; they need help balancing risks and benefits.
The key is offering them options, knowing what problems need to be discussed, and monitoring treatment beyond what’s usually recommended on product labeling, said Dr. Donna Graves, an MS specialist at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas. She shared her tips – and also a heads-up about alemtuzumab, which might be approved for MS as soon as this fall – at a meeting of the Consortium of Multiple Sclerosis Centers and the Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis.