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Old 08-03-2010, 09:43 PM   #12
StephN
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Re: Trying not to panic

Sorry for your unwelcome phone call.
A call like that will send a person scurrying for the next treatment.

Here is some info from the Clinicaltrials.Gov web site:

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01120561

Contacts
Contact: Trial Information Support Line888-662-6728



This is the same phone number that Elaine kindly posted, but this also has the identifier number.

Just tell them you want to contact the Cedar Rapids location to get the ball rolling. Their number was not on the site where I looked.

Brenda does have a good suggestion. And I am wondering if the TM is picking up a lot of dead cell material, since the scan was basically stable. That happened to me, but I did not have a number that high.
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