Vaccine - One possibility is that instead of Gleevec or other drugs, someone with CML would get a series of initial shots and then booster shots every so often (once a month? once every several months? longer? -- no one knows.) The second possibility is a cure, where a series of shots would either eliminate all disease (including the original leukemic stem cells), or the body's T-cells would learn to kill all the offspring of the leukemic stem cells, so the disease would cease to be a problem and no drugs would be needed. I want to continue to stress that there is much work to be done, and that a vaccine that actually works against CML has not yet been proven. Even though some levels of disease reduction have been noted in some individuals under certain conditions after receiving vaccine shots, others have shown little or no response.
I think that the vaccine approach will be the future of CML treatment and could be a cure for that. trials that are in process right now in the U.S.: http://www.cancer.gov/search/ResultsClinicalTrialsAdvanced.aspx?protocolsearchid=4944001 interesting recent articles: http://www.cancerwise.org/march_2008/display.cfm?id=07ec8eb6-0636-464f- 8c6431df0eac67e3&method=displayfull&color=red http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071210094351.htm http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/content/abstract/blood-2008-04-150045v1 http://health.yahoo.com/leukemia-treatment/vaccine-produces-leukemia-remissions/mdanderson--1C235AB9-0AA1-4772- 960101B61BA1DCAB.html http://www.cancernetwork.com/leukemia/article/10165/1161889 Source: http://ubb-lls.leukemia-lymphoma.org/ubb/Forum17/HTML/001026.html - The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society BBS - living with cml - vaccine information- author: Trey ( member) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ [CMLHope] A support group of http://cmlhope.com ------------------------------------------------- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CMLHope" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CMLHope -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
