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Imatinib is a drug used to treat certain types of cancer. It is currently marketed by Novartis as Gleevec (USA) or Glivec (Europe/Australia) as its mesylate salt, imatinib mesilate. It is occasionally still referred to as CGP57148B or STI571 (especially in older publications). It is used in treating chronic myelogenous... more at Wikipedia
Treatment Success Rate
| Top 5 Communities | ||
| Condition | Members | Success |
| Chronic Myelogenous Leu... | 103 |
92% |
| Bone Marrow Transplant | 1 |
100% |
| Chronic Lymphocytic Leu... | 1 |
100% |
Overall, 92% (106
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The medicine is working so far.
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Lots of drugs intially my wbc was over 250,000. Started with 400 mg of Gleevac now on 600 mg after a year my PCR went up. Experiencing more side effects now .
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All i know is that she is taking this and thats at the current time it is working?
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Holding the leukemia at bay. Side effects are severe bone and joint pain, constant exhaustion, nausea etc. I am on about 6 drugs to try to control the side effects.
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Started on Gleevec 400 a day then 800 a day now 600 a day.
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The Gleevec seems to be working but I am developing cognative disfunction, pain in joints, and chronic fatigue. Now I am having kidney trouble.
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I had swelling around my face, rashes on my arms & some on my legs. My doctor recommends i stay on 400m for now.
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Slowly winged onto it, caused nausea, hair loss and depression, but it helped get her counts down
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Nausea, vomitting, Exhaustion, but blood count is great
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have always gotten my wbc down to normal
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Even if the trial is closed ask your doctor about it anyway...I had heard that a couple of doctors were going ahead and providing it on compassionate ... [More] -
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Thanks for checking into the gleevec studies for me! I wondered why I couldn't find it with the other trials. I see an oncologist March 13th, hopefu... [More] -
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Hi all, I am hoping Rabidmama will respond and let me know how she received the gleevec for her daughter's plexi. My nine year old son also has a pl... [More] -
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I'm prob gonna do a Gleevec trial... hopefully it'll shrink my plexiform [More] -
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Gleevec compared to traditional cytotoxic chemothearpy drugs has pretty low well-tolerable side effects. It only 'attacks' the bad cells. It's c... [More]
