Re: Vaccine for CML in research stage.

[Guest guest]

Lottie,

We've been hearing since at least 2001 that a vaccine is the way to cure CML Do

you have any details about this particular vaccine?

Thanks.

L

[ ] Vaccine for CML in research stage.

Good news on the leukemia front.

June 20, 2008. Progress in the development of a leukemia vaccine has been

enough to win a five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to continue

studying the approach. " The hope really is to get patients off Gleevec

ultimately, " said Dr. Lee of Stanford University School of Medicine, a

leukemia specialist who worked on the study. " It's very very early days, but

that is the hope. " This approach enlists the immune system.

http://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cml/news?NewsItemId=20080620elin022.xml_________\

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March 7, 2008. The majority of women who become pregnant while taking the

cancer drug Gleevec will probably have a successful outcome. However, there is a

substantial risk of serious fetal malformations, according to a study reported

this week. http://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cml/news

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December 11, 2007 . A new leukemia vaccine under investigation extends

patients' event-free survival by more than three-fold, from 2.4 month with

conventional treatment to 8.7 months, investigators at the University of Texas

M. D. Cancer Center in Houston reported at the 49th annual meeting of

the American Society of Hematology held in Atlanta. " The residual leukemia cells

disappear over time in the responders and we cannot detect them after a time, "

Qazilbash said. " The molecular markers of leukemia disappear. " The best time to

use the vaccine is after first-line treatment fails, he suggests. " We don't see

this used as first-line treatment. "

http://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cml/news?NewsItemId=20071211elin035.xml

Blessings,

Lottie

[Guest guest]

Great article thanks for sharing.

> From: Lottie Duthu <lotajam@...>

> Subject: [ ] Vaccine for CML in research stage.

> " CML " < >

> Date: Saturday, July 19, 2008, 10:33 PM

> Good news on the leukemia front.

>

> June 20, 2008. Progress in the development of a leukemia

> vaccine has been enough to win a five-year grant from the

> National Cancer Institute to continue studying the

> approach. " The hope really is to get patients off

> Gleevec ultimately, " said Dr. Lee of Stanford

> University School of Medicine, a leukemia specialist who

> worked on the study. " It's very very early days,

> but that is the hope. " This approach enlists the

> immune system.

>

http://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cml/news?NewsItemId=20080620elin022.xml_________\

__________________________________

>

> March 7, 2008. The majority of women who become pregnant

> while taking the cancer drug Gleevec will probably have a

> successful outcome. However, there is a substantial risk of

> serious fetal malformations, according to a study reported

> this week. http://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cml/news

>

> ___________________________________________

> December 11, 2007 . A new leukemia vaccine under

> investigation extends patients' event-free survival by

> more than three-fold, from 2.4 month with conventional

> treatment to 8.7 months, investigators at the University of

> Texas M. D. Cancer Center in Houston reported at

> the 49th annual meeting of the American Society of

> Hematology held in Atlanta. " The residual leukemia

> cells disappear over time in the responders and we cannot

> detect them after a time, " Qazilbash said. " The

> molecular markers of leukemia disappear. " The best

> time to use the vaccine is after first-line treatment

> fails, he suggests. " We don't see this used as

> first-line treatment. "

>

> http://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cml/news?NewsItemId=20071211elin035.xml

>

> Blessings,

> Lottie

>

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