Results of 's Bone Marrow Biopsy

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Hi all:We have received the official news that is in " CCR " , a great way to

start 2008!His Bone Marrow Biopsy results were as follows (excuse me if all the

terms are not correct) FISH test shows 0/250.

" Negative for the Philadelphia Translocation in 250 of 250 cells analyzed " .

BMB Cytogenics shows 0/20.

We are awaiting his PCR results and will share those with the group when we

receive.

All in all from what we hear from Zavie, Tracey and 's oncologist this is

all great news...

The actual " report " we got is so technical, sometimes it is hard to pull out

just the simple things we all are interested in--but thanks to Zavie and Tracey,

they helped decipher!

Happy New Year to all--

Cervera

@...: traceyincanada@...: Wed, 2 Jan 2008

23:13:43 +0000Subject: Re: [ ] RE: 0 club now a rash

Hi Chi,Congratulations on the zero!! Lots of our members have had various rashes

while on Gleevec. If it's not too bothersome, you probably don't need to do

anything about it. If it's bothering you and really itchy, you could ask your

doctor about trying Benadryl. Some members who had really terrible rashes, had

success using Prednisone. I wouldn't worry about it though. I've never heard of

anyone having serious problems because of the rashes. They're usually more of a

cosmetic concern than anything else.Happy New Year to you too,Tracey> > > O!!! YIPPEEE!!!> > Number 1138 in the Zero

Club> > Zavie> > > > _____ > > > > From: LETITBE@... [mailto:LETITBE@...] > >

Sent: December 19, 2007 6:03 PM> > zmiller@...> > Subject: 0 club> > > >

Zavie,> > > > I had good news today at the Onc. I am at 0.00 not> > sure the

rest of the> > numbers on the FISH. I am very pleased. Gleevec is> > doing its

job for me.> > > > I was surprised, my Onc knew of the zero club.> > > >

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