[CMLHope] Re: Gleevec as Possible Cure

2006-09-20 Thread Tony Lanoue
ent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 1:19 PM Subject: [CMLHope] Re: Gleevec as Possible Cure > > Dear Anjana, > > Thanks for posting the abstract, and for your good discussion of it. It > was with precisely becaise of this possibility - that IFN might > stimulate lasting immunity

[CMLHope] Re: Gleevec as Possible Cure

2006-09-20 Thread anjana
Dear Richard, According to the article, prior exposure to Interferon did not affect sustaining remission or relapse. Larger studies are looking at that and I spoke to our doctor today and Australian trials are under way for patients who have only been on Gleevec and in PCRU and then going off

[CMLHope] Re: Gleevec as Possible Cure

2006-09-19 Thread lgvfmm
Hi Anjana - can you please email me the article as well - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks so much for all the info you provide. Frances --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com - You receiv

[CMLHope] Re: Gleevec as Possible Cure

2006-09-19 Thread Richard R
Dear Anjana, Thanks for posting the abstract, and for your good discussion of it. It was with precisely becaise of this possibility - that IFN might stimulate lasting immunity against CML - that I elected, in the Fall of 2000, to go on IFN for six months rather than enter one of the STI571 (AKA i

[CMLHope] Re: Gleevec as Possible Cure

2006-09-18 Thread Sandy08
Anjana, Will you please email the article to me, too? Thanks for all the information. I've learned a lot from all of you. Sandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ---

[CMLHope] Re: Gleevec as Possible Cure

2006-09-18 Thread Giora
hello anjana can you please email me the article? thanks and shalom giora - Original Message - From: "anjana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CMLHope" Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 10:27 AM Subject: [CMLHope] Re: Gleevec as Possible Cure > > Please mail me

[CMLHope] Re: Gleevec as Possible Cure

2006-09-18 Thread anjana
Please mail me privately if you want the entire article. Yes, there have been other studies on going off Gleevec, presented at last ASH 2005 and one such study in a small cohort of patients showed a few patients relapsed and some did not, the ones who did not had taken Interferon before Gleevec.

[CMLHope] Re: Gleevec as Possible Cure

2006-09-17 Thread Rob
That is an interesting study. I have not seen one before that showed that 50% do not relapse after being off Gleevec.RobOn 9/17/06, Lisa Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Rousselot P, Huguet F, Rea D, Legros L, Cayuela JM, Maarek O, Bla