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Kenyan oncologist wins global award for leukemia work
17 Apr 2025 11:33 GMT
… the 2025 International Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (ICMLF) Prize.
This … was diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) in March … Abinya has led the Gleevec International Patient Assistance Program … We provide more than ten cancer drugs free of charge," …
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The Blood Cancer Success Story: Part 2
15 Apr 2025 17:06 GMT
… as Gleevec. Innovative CAR T therapies approved in blood cancer are now … initial treatment. Here, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and T-cell malignancies … patients. A new class of drugs, menin inhibitors, is making waves …
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'I never realised I could feel grief so deep': Former politician loses son to brain cancer
12 Apr 2025 00:38 GMT
… ", citing the chronic myeloid leukaemia drug, Gleevec.
Researcher Nigel McMillan, a professor … in a drug trial after being diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2015 … areas through telehealth.
Melbourne-based cancer specialist John Zalcberg says it …
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Rutgers Cancer Institute Reviews Guidelines for Managing Blood Cancers During Pregnancy
09 Apr 2025 00:54 GMT
… acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), … researchers at Rutgers Cancer Institute Department of … hand, the antibody-drug conjugate Adcetris (brentuximab … kinase inhibitors (TKIs), including Gleevec, Phyrago or Sprycel (dasatinib …
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A guide to kinase inhibitors in biotech: From cancer breakthroughs to autoimmune innovations
26 Mar 2025 23:00 GMT
… and tumor formation.
Imatinib (Gleevec) – developed by Novartis – has to be the … progression in relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and follicular lymphoma.
For … represent a broad approach to cancer treatment. Drugs such as sorafenib, lenvatinib …
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Gleevec interactions: Alcohol, medications, and other factors
10 Mar 2025 22:36 GMT
… closer look at certain drug interactions of Gleevec.
Acetaminophen
Gleevec can interact with … juice while taking the drug.
Gleevec interactions with vaccines
Gleevec is known to … will likely not prescribe Gleevec. Taking the drug could cause another allergic …
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Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people
11 Mar 2025 05:09 GMT
… for cystic fibrosis; Gleevec for leukemia; Herceptin for breast cancer. As one researcher … it) could save their underfunded drug. These fleeting collaborations with expertise … that, with this drug, diabetes II, colon cancer, bowel cancer, dementia – all the …
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Gleevec Response in GIST May Be Linked to Mutational Profile
11 Mar 2025 03:56 GMT
… tumor response to treatment.
Neoadjuvant Gleevec: Gleevec given before surgery to shrink … surgery; negative margin means no cancer cells, positive margin means potential … terms for incomplete cancer removal: R1 indicates microscopic cancer at the margin …
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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards $4.4 million to top young scientists
05 Mar 2025 20:59 GMT
… drugs that block overactive growth signals—such as Gleevec for chronic myeloid leukemia … evade inhibition by targeted anti-cancer drugs by activating other proteins, leading … payloads, that aggregate in drug-resistant cancer cells and kill them. As …
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‘Lose-lose-lose’ scenario: ASCO seeks reduced out-of-pocket costs for cancer care
20 Feb 2025 14:55 GMT
… showed individuals prescribed imatinib (Gleevec, Novartis) who had high insurance … for patients undergoing active cancer treatment who have ACA … more and more effective drugs, the downstream effects … t treat their chronic leukemia optimally, ends up progressing …