Hi Cheryl, Thanks. I really appreciate all the work you did to dissect the paper its great information. My guess is that the stats for people only on IM would be the same or better than those than failed INF in the same grouping.
Sharon --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Cheryl-Anne Simoneau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Sharon, > > After doing the mental gymnastics required for dissecting the paper today, I > can't remember which study spoke to your question of long term survivability > rates for patients who were only treated with IM. However, reading through > the paper from today I could say that long term survivability rates would be > very good. I can say this because most patients at Dx are experiencing > generally overall good health (ironically). Then as long as you have had and > continue to have (and according to this study the % of people maintaining > their good results is quite high) good response to IM you can look forward > to excellent long term survival rates. If the long term survival rates of > patient now on IM who had failed IFN is as high as 96% in the good (no risk) > group and 49% ( in the poorest risk group), then you should expect rates of > 100% for the good group, but I am not going to guess for the poor group, > because now there are newer drugs so this lower number is about to change > and hopefully quite dramatically. > > Hope this helps, > > Cheers, > Cheryl-Anne ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/8zSolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> New! Sign up for local CML support group meetings in your local community at http://cml.meetup.com Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com CML (Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Support List) --------------------------------- Part Of CMLHope.Com An International Community Of CML Patients For more information: http://cmlhope.com Post Message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To No Mail/Web: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change To Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CML Group Web Site http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CML/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
