Guest guest Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 is anyone else on this new drug called sprycel? let me know please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2007 Report Share Posted July 27, 2007 Carolyn In a sense you are part of the group that is leading the way for the understanding of Sprycel. A rough sum of the clinical trial results has over a 1000 people having taken Sprycel. Most of the people in Chronic phase are still on the drug after about an average of 18 months. There have been some surprises such as that many patients are responding to doses that are much lower than the best lab studies would have predicted. In some ways Sprycel is like Gleevec in terms of the kinases (enzymes) that they inhibit. The experience so far with Gleevec (6+ years) has been that this has not caused any major long term effects on the patient so this is of little relative concern with Sprycel. However, Sprycel differs from Gleevec in that it also inhibits the activity of a family of kinases termed SRC (pronounced SARK). What the long term effects of this is unknown. In terms of cancer, the SRC kinases seem to be important in the growth and ability to metastasize of quite a few cancers so Sprycel will be studied in those settings also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 22, 2008 Report Share Posted March 22, 2008 It is chemo. Raachel mrsmet98@... wrote: hi group, can anyone tell me if sprycel is considered a form of chemo? thanks, marion from maine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 23, 2008 Report Share Posted March 23, 2008 I was on Sprycel for three years and did great---then got some bad affects and had to go on Tasigna. Sharon _____ From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of sopranograndma Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 1:13 PM Subject: [ ] Re: sprycel --- In groups (DOT) <mailto:%40> com, " stephenraymoore " <stephenraymoore@...> wrote: > > is anyone else on this new drug called sprycel? let me know please. > yes steven, i,ve been on sprycel about a year and a half and doing really well. i couldn,t take gleevic because i kept having bad reactions to my liver.i found out i had cml in 2001, marion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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