I've been off Gleevac for about 1.5 years now, due to eye bleeds. My Philadelphia Chromosone indicator (level) was/is 0.07 up from 6 months ago when it was 0.012. In a month they will recheck and then decide if I need to be on anything.
________________________________ From: Victoria Reiter <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, March 20, 2011 9:29:56 AM Subject: [CMLHope] Eye bleeds I've been on Gleevec for eleven years and began to have occasional eye bleeds about six years ago. This lasted for a short time and then stopped. Now I'll have perhaps one eye bleed a year and count myself lucky. I was unaware that a few people were having bleeding in the brain and am not certain if this is from Gleevec or from Tasigna. It's unspoken but true that everyone who takes a new medication is a test subject and that every side effect that can occur does not necessarily show up while a drug is in first and second stage testing. But we have to give kudos to Dr. Druker for having more or less solved our problem by attempting to block the molecular expression of it. His approach is being used on other cancers: I believe there's even a new melanoma drug that uses the same technique. -- [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 -- [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
