Anyone from British Columbia...?

[Kimbangu]

this can only be good news.....


ROCHE | Roche Canada supports University of British Columbia autoimmune research Fellowship (http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2011/22/c5251.html)

[drz]

this can only be good news.....


ROCHE | Roche Canada supports University of British Columbia autoimmune research Fellowship (http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/August2011/22/c5251.html)

Interesting that they state there are 4000 cases of vasculitis in Canada. Not all of them are GPA I guess but this works out to a ratio of one per 8,250. Scleroderma is 10 times more frequent with 40,000 cases in Canada or one per 825 people.

Quote from link: Vasculitis and scleroderma are rare autoimmune disorders that occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. The term vasculitis represents a group of diseases, which primarily affect the small blood vessels of the kidneys, lungs, sinuses, and a variety of other organs.1 Wegener's granulomatosis and microscopic polyangiitis are two major forms of systemic vasculitis.2 Scleroderma, often referred to as systemic sclerosis, is a progressive and chronic tissue disorder. It causes thickening, hardening and scarring of the skin and other organs. In Canada, there are approximately 4,000 cases of vasculitis, and 530 new cases in patients over 15 years of age are diagnosed each year.3 It is estimated there are as many as 40,000 cases of scleroderma in Canada.4

[pberggren1]

I know a few on the Forum here that are from BC. My doc figures that Wegs is more like one in 5 to 10 thousand.

[drz]

I know a few on the Forum here that are from BC. My doc figures that Wegs is more like one in 5 to 10 thousand.

The numbers above would back up his estimate.