Cancer Pill Gleevec Keeps Patients Alive and Well for a Decade - NBCNews.com

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Cancer Pill Gleevec Keeps Patients Alive and Well for a Decade NBCNews.com Everyone hopes and wishes for that last-minute cancer breakthrough that will save doomed patients. It almost never actually happens. With Gleevec, it did. The once-a-day pill turned chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, from a certain death sentence ... 'Imatinib Changed Everything': The Future Is Now More HopefulMedscape ​L​eukemia​ drug fends off cancer for a decade, study showsCBS News New England Journal of Medicine publishes long-term results of Gleevec for patients with chronic myeloid leukemiaMedical Xpress Pharmacy Today, American Pharmacists Association, pharmacist.com -Healio -Cancer Network -2 Minute Medicine all 9 news articles »

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