Hi Margarete,
Since I had low platelets at dx 2006 I belong to a support group for patients with platelets diseases. Here is some info about Nplate and Promacta.
The persons working at the FDA are afraid that the growth factors for low platelets should increase the risk for cancer and give other severe adverse effects like the EPO drugs, that stimulate the bone marrow to make more RBCs, can do.
http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/.../ucm109375.htm
That’s why both Nplate and Promacta got risk management programs before approval:
http://www.nplatenexus.com/about.html
http://www.promactacares.com/dispense.html
The first member of this forum who received Promacta as far as I know – Kirby Stone - posted about how to get the drug. If you search for Promacta you can read that he got it through Promacta cares.
Kind regards
Birgitta-A