Re: April 19, My REBIRTHday

[Guest guest]

Dear Virginia,

A hearty congratulations on your 10th anniversary on Gleevec. My 8th

anniversary happens on August 27th this year.

My deepest thanks go out to you and everyone else who participated in the

original clinical trials. Your selfishness at the time made it so easy for

those who followed you. You are a true CML Warrior and Hero.

Virginia is # 260 in the Zero Club.

Zavie

Zavie (age 70)

67 Shoreham Avenue

Ottawa, Canada, K2G 3X3

dxd AUG/99

INF OCT/99 to FEB/00, CHF

No meds FEB/00 to JAN/01

Gleevec since MAR/27/01 (400 mg)

CCR SEP/01. #102 in Zero Club

2.8 log reduction Sep/05

3.0 log reduction Jan/06

2.9 log reduction Feb/07

3.6 log reduction Apr/08

3.6 log reduction Sep/08

e-mail: zmiller@...

Tel: 613-726-1117

Tel: 561-429-3309 in Florida

Fax: 309-296-0807

Cell: 613-282-0204

ID: zaviem

YM: zaviemiller

Skype: Zavie

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From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of

Virginia Garner

Sent: April-21-09 1:42 PM

Subject: [ ] April 19, My REBIRTHday

I am one of the first few people to take an effective dose of Gleevec in the

Phase 1 trial (then it was called STI 571) at UCLA. I swallowed my first

Gleevec pills 10 years ago on April 19, 1999. I call it my REBIRTHday

because it gave me my life back.

It is hard to believe it has been so long since I took those first pills.

When it became obvious that this new drug was working as well as Dr. Druker

thought it would, it was like stepping out of the darkness of despair

(interferon and death in 3-5 years) and into the light of hope. Dr. Sawyers

at UCLA was obvious in his delighted reaction to what was happening. It was

truly miraculous.

In the process of all of this I got to meet and interact with dedicated and

brilliant scientists such as Druker, Sawyers, and Neil Shah.

(I know there are many others but these are the people I personally got to

know well.) This in itself changed my life. I learned that the Leukemia &

Lymphoma Society played a big part in supporting their research and my

volunteering for the Society and my fundraising has given me new purpose in

life.

When I was diagnosed in 1997, at any given time there were about 30,000

people living with CML. Now we can all celebrate that there are over 100,000

and that by 2010 that number will probably be up to 250,000.

Life is good!

Virginia Garner

[Guest guest]

Congratulations on your Rebirthday!!!

From: Virginia Garner

Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:41 PM

Subject: [ ] April 19, My REBIRTHday

I am one of the first few people to take an effective dose of Gleevec in the

Phase 1 trial (then it was called STI 571) at UCLA. I swallowed my first Gleevec

pills 10 years ago on April 19, 1999. I call it my REBIRTHday because it gave me

my life back.

It is hard to believe it has been so long since I took those first pills. When

it became obvious that this new drug was working as well as Dr. Druker thought

it would, it was like stepping out of the darkness of despair (interferon and

death in 3-5 years) and into the light of hope. Dr. Sawyers at UCLA was obvious

in his delighted reaction to what was happening. It was truly miraculous.

In the process of all of this I got to meet and interact with dedicated and

brilliant scientists such as Druker, Sawyers, and Neil Shah. (I

know there are many others but these are the people I personally got to know

well.) This in itself changed my life. I learned that the Leukemia & Lymphoma

Society played a big part in supporting their research and my volunteering for

the Society and my fundraising has given me new purpose in life.

When I was diagnosed in 1997, at any given time there were about 30,000 people

living with CML. Now we can all celebrate that there are over 100,000 and that

by 2010 that number will probably be up to 250,000.

Life is good!

Virginia Garner

[Guest guest]

thank you virginia and all the other wariors that have made suvival posible

by taking part in these trials

aliza yaffa

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