Guest guest Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Has anyone tried to find out if there are people who have been cured from this disease without having to use gleevev, sprycell, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 25, 2008 Report Share Posted February 25, 2008 Hi Claudemir, Neither Gleevec nor Sprycel can cure CML, both drugs are able to keep the leukemia under control but they don't cure it. There are other pharmaceutical drugs that can also help in controlling the disease but none of them offer a cure. For a very select few. Interferon was able to cure them but the numbers of people who were actually cured from Interferon came no where near the number of people who had debilitating side effects, some of which caused permanent damage so this is why Interferon is no longer used as front line treatment. Bone marrow transplants have been known to cure some people but again there are risks and quality of life issues involved so patients need to consider their risk versus their chance of a cure. For some people, there are no other options left besides transplant so there are no risks to consider for these people. Other than that, there has been nothing in the literature to indicate that any other treatment will even treat CML, let alone cure it. Tracey > > Has anyone tried to find out if there are people who have been cured > from this disease without having to use gleevev, sprycell, etc. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 26, 2008 Report Share Posted February 26, 2008 Thank you once again for speaking the simple truth of the situation. L [ ] Re: natural cure for CML Hi Claudemir, Neither Gleevec nor Sprycel can cure CML, both drugs are able to keep the leukemia under control but they don't cure it. There are other pharmaceutical drugs that can also help in controlling the disease but none of them offer a cure. For a very select few. Interferon was able to cure them but the numbers of people who were actually cured from Interferon came no where near the number of people who had debilitating side effects, some of which caused permanent damage so this is why Interferon is no longer used as front line treatment. Bone marrow transplants have been known to cure some people but again there are risks and quality of life issues involved so patients need to consider their risk versus their chance of a cure. For some people, there are no other options left besides transplant so there are no risks to consider for these people. Other than that, there has been nothing in the literature to indicate that any other treatment will even treat CML, let alone cure it. Tracey > > Has anyone tried to find out if there are people who have been cured > from this disease without having to use gleevev, sprycell, etc. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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