Re:New member, Sharon (and Lottie)

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Lottie wrote:

I am curious, however to know why your doctor has given you Zylorpim

(allopurinol) with Gleevec, as the management of patients with leukemia,

lymphoma and malignancies who are receiving cancer therapy which causes

elevations of serum and urinary uric acid levels. Treatment with ZYLOPRIM

should be discontinued when the potential for overproduction of uric acid

is no longer present. http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/allopur_ids.htm#I

Personally I have not met anyone who was put on Zyloprim and Gleevec at the

same time. This is a drug used to control gout or gouty arthritis.

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Hi Lottie and Sharon,

Dr. Druker has his patients on both Gleevec and allopurinol IF they start

Gleevec with a white count of more than 20,000 so that they do not get too

high of uric acid from all the cell breakdown. In the old days, people were

on hydrea frist to get the white count down before starting Gleevec (and

maybe some oncs still do that?)..........but that is the reason when the

white count is high.

C.