Cancer drug helps treat MS patients: "There may be help for MS patients when nothing else works. It's a cancer drug that also seems to stop the progression of multiple sclerosis...The cancer drug rituximab (Rituxan) is the first treatment to target the B cells in patients with MS, and it could be the first effective treatment for patients when nothing else works.
"The response to the Rituxan in those patients were really dramatic, in terms of not only stopping disease progression, but really helping the patient to recover some of the neurological function," said neurologist Dr. Olaf Stuve"