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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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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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Withdrawn Agents, Label Updates, and New Drug Formulations Shaped the Oncology Field in 2024
14 Feb 2025 17:22 GMT
… and new formulations of drugs housed under accelerated, regular … prior therapy including imatinib (Gleevec)
Month: November
To read … Indication: Certain forms of leukemia and other cancers
Month: … of HER2-overexpressing breast cancer, treatment of HER2- …
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Ascentage Has First U.S. Biotech IPO of 2025, Raising $126M to Bring Its Cancer Meds to the World
25 Jan 2025 00:45 GMT
… tyrosine kinases, enzymes that drive cancer growth. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors ( … available, such as the Novartis drugs Scemblix and Gleevec. But CML can become … Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphocytic leukemia and gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
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Evolution of Personalized Cancer Care With Molecular Profiling
21 Jan 2025 23:54 GMT
… (Gleevec), which offered a new treatment for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia … that cancer cells use to evade the immune system. These drugs have … :10.1056/NEJMoa052122
Gleevec FDA approval history. Drugs. Updated February 25 …