She endured that experience with pluck and grace and the leukemia went into remission.
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The engineered cells are then infused back into the patient, primed to hunt down the leukemia cells.
Williams started the twice-daily pill in July 2005, and after six months most of the leukemia cells were gone.
He worried it was just a matter of time before the leukemia mutated further into the rapidly fatal "blast crisis" stage.
Hagop Kantarjian, who chairs the leukemia department at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and who spearheaded the commentary piece, acknowledged that his effort may hurt his research career with the pharmaceutical industry.
Into this gloom comes Novartis' Glivec, the first leukemia drug designed to attack the molecular machinery that drives the disease.
Novartis rose to prominence thanks to the success of the blockbuster leukemia drug Gleevec.
Maybe she convinced herself that Andrews was younger or healthier than the average leukemia patient.
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She serves on the board of the Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Global Research Foundation at the M.
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The AMLs are different from other forms of leukemia in the age of the population affected, the standard treatments used and the chances of cure.
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The increased risk corresponded to one additional case of leukemia in the 10 years after the first scan for every 10, 000 patients younger than 10 who were scanned, or to an extra case of brain cancer for every 30, 000 such people scanned.
One is Tasigna, now approved for the minority chronic leukemia patients who are resistant to Gleevec.
More work is needed to determine how best to use the treatment in leukemia patients, Dr. Brentjens said.
If we look at the Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research Consortium webpage, we can see a few more interesting things.
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An old Japanese legend has it that anyone who folds 1, 000 origami cranes will be granted a wish, and in this case, Sasaki wished for her recovery from the ravages of leukemia.
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In an effort to learn how to better handle her emotions, Shania visits author and psychiatrist Dr. Gordon Livingston, who lost two sons, one to suicide and the other to leukemia.
It suggests that perhaps a few percent of the time, as we do in leukemia, do we have the targeted drugs to hit the key targets that will put the problem in remission for years.
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The San Francisco financier Warren Hellman died Sunday evening from complications related to leukemia, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
The problem: His leukemia cells contained a mutation that made them resistant to Gleevec's effect.
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"The best example is leukemia, " he said, which has led to many children now being cured of this cancer.
He died in January at 57 from leukemia, the end result of a two-year struggle against myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of cancer that affects the bone marrow.
With University of Maryland mathematician Doron Levy, he has been studying why the immune system can't wipe out leukemia cells that are missed by the breakthrough drug Gleevec.
He passed away from Leukemia before the age of 30.
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After a year on therapy, 54% to 57% of patients on Tasigna had no signs of leukemia using the most sensitive test vs. just 30% of those who were on Gleevec.
The council's environment committee has evacuated 46 families, affected by leukemia and other problems, from the mining areas.
Gleevec is not a big seller, but it is a breakthrough: About 80% of patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia respond to the drug.
The idea of using a leukemia drug for stomach cancer, an anti-seizure drug for nerve pain, a cancer drug for gout all were impactful suggestions proposed by physicians or researchers outside the company developing the drug.
Antigenics ' (nasdaq: AGEN - news - people ) decision to test the drug in chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a rare disease developed by more than 4, 000 adults per year, is emblematic of a trend in drug development.
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