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Monday January 13, 2003
EUTHANASIA PREVENTION GROUP SEES HOPE FOR PAIN CONTROL IN NEW PAINKILLER
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TORONTO, January 13, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Phase II clinical trials for a new painkiller named TectinTM, which is derived from the pufferfish, are being carried out in cancer centres throughout Canada. Current clinical trials are being done on late stage cancer patients who are experiencing uncontrolled pain and who have not undergone chemotherapy during the past month.
Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, explained his group's interest in the painkillers. "The fear of experiencing uncontrolled pain is cited as the most important reason that people support legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide. When pain is controlled, dying people seem more concerned about living their final days rather than having control over the time and place of their death," Schadenberg told LifeSite.
Another important consideration for the Coalition is that it is believed that TectinTM does not have the possible but unintentional side-effect of hastening or causing death. High dosages of morphine, in some circumstances, can have a "double effect" of relieving severe pain but also eventually killing the patient when not properly administered. The amount of TectinTM that is required to kill a patient would be astronomical.
TectinTM was developed in China for many uses and has been extensive tested in that country. Chinese clinical tests that were done on cancer patients whose pain was not relieved by traditional analgesics found that all of the participants experienced nearly total pain relief within 5 - 30 minutes, that the pain continued to be relieved, and there were few side-effects.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is urging anyone who may qualify for TectinTM clinical trials to call the toll-free information number: 1-800-722-7549.
Visit the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition website:
http://www.epcc.ca/
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