Gleevec: the Breakthrough in Cancer Treatment Some say it's a miracledrug. Others call it a silver bullet. Gleevec, also marketed internationally as Glivec and sometimes referred to by its chemical name imatinib
Pharmaceutical companies have for years been under pressure over the pricing of their drugs, and one of the most high-profile cases is Novartis' Gleevec, a miracle drug dubbed a breakthrough in cancer treatment for CML. Gleevec, approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2001, has...
TheKnight Cancer Instituteat OHSU is a pioneer in the field of precision cancer medicine. The institute's director,Brian Druker, M.D., helped prove it was possible to shut down just the cells that enable cancer to grow. This breakthrough has...
Gleevec: the breakthrough in cancer treatment - Pray - 2008Pray L. Gleevec: The breakthrough in cancer treatment. Nat Educ. 2008; 1 :1.Pray, Leslie A (2008). "Gleevec: The breakthrough in cancer treatment." Nature Education 1(1), p. 37....
It is the first anticancer drug to specifically inhibit a molecular abnormality unique to human cancer cells. Gleevec has been hailed as a dramatic breakthrough in cancer treatment. It is thought that this drug will lead to the creation of a new paradigm of cancer treatment--mol...