FDA Approves Gleevec For Leukemia Treatment FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE P0110 May 10, 2001, Print Media 301-827-6242 Consumer Inquiries 888-INFO-FDA. FDA APPROVES GLEEVEC FOR leukemia TREATMENT. http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2001/NEW00759.html
Extractions: Consumer Inquiries: 888-INFO-FDA FDA APPROVES GLEEVEC FOR LEUKEMIA TREATMENT The Food and Drug Administration today announced the approval of Gleevec (imatinib mesylate, also known as STI-571), a promising new oral treatment for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) a rare life-threatening form of cancer. FDA reviewed the marketing application for Gleevec in less than three months under its "accelerated approval" regulations. "FDA and Novartis, the drug's manufacturer, should be commended for the rapid development and review that will make this product available soon for the leukemia patients who desperately need it," said Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson. "It is also important to recognize that today's approval is also a culmination of years of work and years of investment, by many people in many different institutions, and even in different fields of medicine. It's a testament to the groundbreaking scientific research taking place in labs throughout America." FDA approved the drug for treating patients with three stages of CML: CML myeloid blast crisis, CML accelerated phase, or CML in chronic phase after failure of interferon treatment. Accelerated approval allows FDA to approve drugs for serious or life-threatening illnesses on the basis of clinical trials establishing that the drug has an effect on a surrogate endpoint that is reasonably likely to predict a real clinical benefit. Gleevec has been shown to reduce substantially the level of cancerous cells in the bone marrow and blood of treated patients.
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Extractions: International Edition MEMBER SERVICES The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-mail Services CNNtoGO Contact Us SEARCH Web CNN.com At a Fallon town hall meeting, Tracy Balderas is flanked by Floyd Sands, left, and Matt Warneke, who both had daughters with leukemia. Story Tools RELATED CDC's Fallon site HEALTH LIBRARY Health Library Leukemia YOUR E-MAIL ALERTS Cancer Leukemia Diseases or Create your own Manage alerts What is this? FALLON, Nevada (AP) For three years, scientists prodded the dust, dirt and water in this rural community and tested the blood of dozens of its residents all in hopes of uncovering why children were developing leukemia. Yet despite the work, scientists revealed Monday that they haven't been able to determine what caused the disease that has sickened 16 children and killed three since 1997. "We were hoping we'd get more information here," said Dr. Malcolm Smith of the National Cancer Institute. "The studies didn't do that but they certainly told us a great deal about what does not exist as health threats to the community." The scientists' final report, presented at a meeting attended by more than 100 people, was a disappointment for families of children afflicted by the cancer. But researchers said the massive amount of data they compiled should help in future efforts to determine the source of the disease.
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Extractions: Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Danish Japanese Korean Arabic Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) Actor Ryan O'Neal has a chronic but treatable form of leukemia, his agent has confirmed to CNN. Deede Binder said O'Neal, 60, is doing well. On Monday, he wrapped production on his latest movie, "People I Know," co-starring Kim Basinger and Al Pacino. O'Neal came in prominence in the 1960s television series "Peyton Place" and was nominated for an Academy Award for his starring role in the 1970 movie "Love Story." He was also well-known as the former long-time companion of actress Farrah Fawcett.
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Extractions: From staff and wire reports TAMPA, Florida (CNN) A young boy who is fighting a life-threatening disease will get to keep his backyard treehouse because the Tampa Palms Homeowners Association changed its mind Tuesday after being hit with a wave of negative publicity and adverse public opinion. The association granted a waiver of the deed restrictions, saying the treehouse was considered a medical necessity for 6-year-old Brage Sassin.
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Extractions: Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW BETHESDA, Maryland (CNN) Rep. John Joseph Moakley, 74, a good-humored Capitol Hill fixture for the last 29 years, died Monday of complications from leukemia. "It is my sad duty to notify you that our dear friend Joe Moakley passed away today, Memorial Day, at 3:30 p.m.," said Rep. James McGovern, D-Massachusetts, a former Moakley staffer, Monday at Bethesda Naval Hospital. "At his bedside were members of his family and his brothers Bob and Tom, staff and friends. "We all loved Joe very, very much," McGovern said. "We all admired the courage and even the humor he displayed over these last few weeks." Moakley, known to his friends and adversaries as "Joe," was a Massachusetts Democrat who represented the congressional district encompassing the rough-and-tumble South Boston section of Boston. He surprised many of his fellow House members earlier this year by announcing he was ill with leukemia, and planned to retire at the end of his term in 2002. Moakley was admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital last week and his condition was said to have deteriorated rapidly. Family members and friends, including several lawmakers, held a long vigil at his bedside over the weekend.
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Extractions: On leukemia, chemotherapy, and moving on with the rest of your life. Foot In Mouth Disease Laura walks across the room with barely a hello. Just a "hey" as she sfuffles past my bed. She doesn't bother to knock. Why should she? She's my sister, after all, and she's just finished donating plaletets for me again. She has to take a couple of hours off of work to drive down to the Blood Center, and then to sit there while the platelets spin out of her body, so she usually schedules these appointments for some time in the afternoon. When she's done, she'll drive over to the hospital so the two of us can visit for a couple of hours before any of the parents visit. She falls into one of the chairs. She grabs at the armrests and kind of lift-wiggles it until the chair is parallel to my bed. She kicks at the other chair with her feet, pushing it, too, no longer faces my bed. She slumps in the one, stretches her feet out in the other. "Fucking-A," she says, a deep sigh, eyes closed, hands running through her hair to take out the loose pony tail. She's been putting in a ton of hours at work lately. She's beat. She starts venting, my sister, about work and increasingly lousy traffic into and out of the valley, and stupid drivers on 520, and the whole elaborate get-up that she has to deal with every couple of days (especially now that Mom isn't donating platelets any more) and she's so damn
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Leukemia In Iraq (by Andrew North) - Media Monitors Network leukemia in Iraq. It is the sight of the parents that strikes you first when you enter the leukemia ward at the Saddam Central Hospital for Children in Baghdad. http://www.mediamonitors.net/north1.html
Extractions: Unsubscribe oldHnav= null; Perspective by Andrew North It is the sight of the parents that strikes you first when you enter the leukemia ward at the Saddam Central Hospital for Children in Baghdad. Sitting next to each bed, their taut, bleak faces tell the story before you even look at the child curled up beside them. These mothers and fathers know that once their children are admitted here, there is almost no chance they will leave alive. We call this ward the ward of death, said Dr. Basim Al Abdali, almost matter-of-factly, as he inspected a patients notes at the end of a bed. A four-year-old boy had died just hours before this journalists visit. Every day we lose one patient, maybe more than one patient, just in this ward. The mortality rate for leukemia and other cancers here in this ward is 100 percent. There are no exact figures for the number of deaths from leukemia in Iraq. But the World Health Organization (WHO) office in Baghdad does not question the Iraqi Health Ministrys estimate that since 1990 there has been a fourfold increase in the incidence of the disease.
