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How Precision Medicine Is Changing the Fight Against Cancer
13 Jun 2025 23:28 GMT
… essential for cancer cell growth.
Kinase inhibitors, like imatinib (Gleevec), revolutionized … the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia. By blocking … surface or inside the cancer cell.
Design drugs to attack these …
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Liberia: Patients at CB Dunbar Hospital Praise Direct Relief for Free Lifesaving Drugs
13 Jun 2025 04:46 GMT
… illnesses, including leukemia.
By Selma Lomax [email protected]
The drugs, provided free … she relies on the medication Glivec to survive.
“I’ve … Imatinib (Glivec), Nilotinib (Tasigna), Dasatinib (Sprycel), and Bosutinib (Bosulif). These drugs, considered …
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How Democrats can pull off a win under a GOP trifecta: Dismantle the "legal" drug cartel
31 May 2025 10:46 GMT
… everyone else — especially patients battling cancer, HIV, heart disease, and autoimmune … they paid to acquire drugs like the cancer treatment Gleevec and multiple sclerosis … steered patients towards more expensive drugs — which come with bigger discounts …
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Dr Swoboda on the Role of TKIs in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
31 May 2025 02:11 GMT
… /oncologist, Tampa General Hospital Cancer Institute, discussed the roles of … chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).
Since the introduction of imatinib (Gleevec), which was …
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Novartis expands strategic collaboration with Shanghai Pharma in China to cover eye drugs
27 May 2025 20:39 GMT
… the reach of some Novartis drugs for ocular infections and … positive, HER2-negative breast cancer and for Scemblix in … positive chronic myeloid leukemia.
In 2024, Novartis saw sales from … Sinopharma, which markets Novartis’ Gleevec (also known as Glivec) in the …
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National Cancer Research Month: A Look at Progress and Future Directions
23 May 2025 17:31 GMT
… magazine had this drug called imatinib [Gleevec], which was a drug that was … typically patients with chronic myeloid leukemia at that time point, 25 … available at the National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers or the academic …
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Kaushik Das Gupta writes: Indian trade negotiators need to look out for spinoffs of Trump’s drug price control order
18 May 2025 11:26 GMT
… his administration intends to cut drug prices. Last week, he … American pharma regime could push drug companies to recalibrate their … of a drug. In 2013, for instance, Novartis lost a … seven-year-old legal battle over its cancer therapy Glivec …
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Blood Cancer Treatment Market Sees Accelerated Growth Across the 7MM Amid Rising Incidence and Breakthroughs | DelveInsight
12 May 2025 17:00 GMT
… blood cancer types individually.
Leukemia Market Leukemia is … CD22-directed antibody-drug conjugates (BESPONSA), … Therapeutics, Allogene Therapeutics, Novartis, Miltenyi Biomedicine, Regeneron … (decitabine and cedazuridine), GLEEVEC (imatinib), and VIDAZA …
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Volunteer’s Cancer Journey Comes Full Circle Through Research, Advocacy
30 Apr 2025 18:26 GMT
… volunteer with the American Cancer Society, helping raise awareness … a cancer center and was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML … ). CML is a type of cancer that … with the brand name of Gleevec, was a groundbreaking targeted …
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Alternating Glivec and Stivarga Doesn't Improve Advanced GIST Outcomes
29 Apr 2025 00:56 GMT
… not statistically different.
“Alternation of [Glivec] and Stivarga did not impact … . Stivarga works differently than Glivec and targets multiple cancer growth pathways. In … first-line single-agent continuous [Glivec] until disease progression on highest …