One of the most exciting is Glivec, STI-571, for chronic myelogenous leukemia (see box, page 34).
Biogen Idec has a new drug for chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which causes 20% of leukemia deaths.
Hellman died of complications from his treatment for leukemia, according to The Bay Citizen.
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The hope for TGN1412 was to have it used to treat a rare form of leukemia.
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She endured that experience with pluck and grace and the leukemia went into remission.
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Government regulators today cleared Gleevec, Novartis' oral treatment for a rare but life-threatening type of leukemia.
Cancer drug Gleevec gives chronic myelogenous leukemia patients a 24-month survival rate of 92%.
One is Tasigna, now approved for the minority chronic leukemia patients who are resistant to Gleevec.
Novartis rose to prominence thanks to the success of the blockbuster leukemia drug Gleevec.
Modern medicine has achieved a lot in terms of successful treatment of childhood leukemia and lymphoma.
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Some leukemias, such as acute lymphocytic leukemia in children, have very high cure rates.
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His leukemia went away, which was good news, but not very quickly, which was bad news.
But Gleevec only helps in two relatively uncommon tumors, chronic myeloid leukemia and stomach lining cancers.
This February came test results that stunned him: No leukemia detected in his bone marrow.
The problem: His leukemia cells contained a mutation that made them resistant to Gleevec's effect.
Ms. Jackson Randall was first diagnosed with leukemia in 2009, and she underwent aggressive treatments.
Maybe she convinced herself that Andrews was younger or healthier than the average leukemia patient.
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After being diagnosed with leukemia, Robert announced his decision to quit the company in 2001.
SMRs near most nuclear power plants were elevated 6-10 years after startup, particularly for leukemia.
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This study looked at a lot of research on leukemia and social interaction among kids.
The protein targeted by Gleevec is always present in a rare cancer called chronic myelogenous leukemia.
In 1999, I was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, for which there is no cure.
Now living with a rare, chronic form of leukemia (CML) diagnosed three years ago.
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The deal includes Marqibo, which Hana says has shown promise in non-Hodgkins lymphoma and acute lymphocytic leukemia.
He eventually isolated stem cells for human acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) and published the finding in 1994.
Describes Emil Freireich's research into drugs to treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in the nineteen-fifties and sixties.
Extra-Life was founded in the name of Victoria Enmon in 2007, a gamer with acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
The engineered cells are then infused back into the patient, primed to hunt down the leukemia cells.
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