Re: 's vacation from Gleevec - Marcos

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Thanks for this information. I have forwarded it to my ONC to see if

he read this study. I know he has mentioned reading earlier studies as

he has always mentioned that there is more research indicated by the

low numbers that have been studied to date.

H.

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> There have been studies on discontinuing gleevec for long term pcru

> patients for a few years now. In France the trial is called STIM (for

> STop IMatinib), the dr I see when I visit family in Paris once a year

> has cosigned a paper on that. She mentioned it when I saw her in 2006

> but I never reached pcru and don't want to increase my 400mg dose.

> More information at

> http://www.cmlsupport.org.uk/?q=node/978

> Marcos.