Hello, my name is Leila. My husband and I were married on Dec. 27th, 2001. Two weeks later he was diagnosed with CML in chronic phase. His wbc was 278. His...
... 400-600 mg is the average dose for Glivec in the treatment of CML best wishes Jörg Hello, my name is Leila. My husband and I were married on Dec. 27th, ...
Hi Douglas, My wife is 6 weeks pregnant and I've been taking 600 mg Gleevec since 4/01. I wrote to Dr. Druker about it, and this is his response. Best of luck,...
... Yes, Leila, they do. There are other reasons, too, why people don't respond so rapidly to Gleevec. Is your husband on any other drugs or vitamin or ...
... 27th, ... on ... dropped ... Has ... some ... don't respond ... vitamin or ... it's the ... abnormalities? ... bit more ... Richard, Thank you for...
Richard, In your e-mail to me you asked me about whether my husband was 210KD or 190KD. I called my friends at the molecular lab and they did not know what...
Richard, In your e-mail to me you asked me about whether my husband was 210KD or 190KD. I called my friends at the molecular lab and they did not know what...
... Leila - these are measures of the size of the bcr-abl enzyme that promotes CML (as you may know, bcr-abl is a cancerous variant of abl, a normal enzyme ...
Hi Leila (and Richard), I hope I don't add to the confusion here but I'm pretty sure from what I've read in the past and what it says on the site that Richard...
... Thank you for your e-mail and your kind wishes. I am hopeing that this is just a dosage issue. Andrew has always needed more medication to take effect....
What is the difference is acheiving a complete cytogenetic response and a complete cytogenetic remission? I'm confused. I thought I was in remission until...
... Leila - I wrote Dr. Talpaz about this and (good guy that he is!) he wrote me right back as follows: "I am pleased to find out that you are doing well, as...
... Thanks Richard, I appreciate you clarifing that for me. I will let you know how he is doing on the 600mg. He has always been slow to react to other drugs...
Hi Priscilla, These terms appear to be inter-changeable. In the main, researchers tend to use the term 'response' in their research articles. My Dr, uses the...
am I way off base, or could this be one reason why some people progress unexpectantly and quickly to blast phase? Mike [Non-text portions of this message have...
Dear Friends My brother is in CML Blast Crisis Phase. I was trying to get gleevec for him. But when the result of his Philadelphia chromosome test come out, it...
In a message dated 4/3/2002 2:54:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ... Steven, did Dr. Druker say exactly what would happen to a woman who conceived while being txd...
My doctor has not said a thin about having to give up alcohol. I assume it is because they really dont know if it is going to have a negative effect. He said...
Dear All My name is Susan Dale and I've just joined the group. I come from Edmonton Canada originally but I have lived in Strasbourg, France for the last 24 ...
Hello I was diagnosed with leukemia in feb 2002 I am 33 after many weeks of interfuron and hydrea my wbc count went from 180000 to 6,000 I started gleevec 2...
... Mike - this is a good question, to which I don't know the answer. Probably not though - I imagine the folks who progress rapidly have been studied closely...
Didn't see your name on your message so forgive me for calling you jamminjammin99202! I am wondering what your doctor says is the reason for your counts to...
... Hi, Jammin, My husband was diagnosed in January and the same thing happened to him. His count was 176 and they put him on Hydroxy Aurea. Hydroxy got him...
Hi Susan, Sorry this response is so late in coming but there is an article on Jennifer's cmlsupport website on the history of cml from the British Journal of...
Dear Gleevec Friends, My husband is somewhat of an inigma as his physician says. Andrew has been taking Gleevec for almost 3 months now. His wbc was 84 when...
Hello there, I was wondering if anyone knows how Glivec works on people who are 100% PH? If someone is 100% PH, where do healthy cells come from when the drug...
I would propose this: Without Glivec the Ph+ cells are dividing much faster than normal cells, so they proliferate while normal cells have almost no room to ...
I was at 100% ph and started on 300 and then 400 mg Gleeve/daily. A three month BMB showed I was still at 80% ph+. My oncologist has upped the dosage to 600...
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