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CML Therapy Update
Many CML patients have have been treated with imatinib which has improved treatment outcomes.
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Facts to Know While Undergoing Therapy for CML
In treating Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML), doctors admit: they don't have all the answers. So patients must learn enough about CML to help make good treatment decisions. That means understanding the natural course of the disease and how his or her own body responds to therapy. Tune in as doctors describe what CML patients need to know.
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CML Treatment: Medication or Transplantation?
Mounting evidence from clinical trials shows that patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) may have long-term treatment success forgoing the only known cure for their disease. Watch and listen as CML experts explain how a promising drug now complicates the decision facing many patients-whether to seek a bone marrow transplant.
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Doctor and Patient Teamwork: Management of CML
For patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, establishing a close relationship with their doctor is very important. With new treatment options available patients and doctors need to be able to communicate freely and be aware of the latest research developments. Find out how CML patients and the doctors who treat them, can work together to treat this disease.
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Managing CML: Dealing With Drug Resistance
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is now one of the most treatable forms of cancer. In some patients, however, their disease becomes resistant to the treatment. Listen to the story of how one patient, along with her oncologist, Dr. Hagop Kantarjian of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, managed her CML.
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CML After Age 65: What are the Treatment Options?
Some treatment options are not available for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia when they are over 65 years old. But most can still look forward to a range of effective medical therapies and a good quality of life. Listen to one man's success story.
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Side Effects of CML Therapy: What Can Be Done?
Gleevec, a treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia, is the model of targeted therapy. However, even "targeted" therapy is not without side effects. Some, like low blood counts, are serious. Hear how one patient, along with her oncologist, Dr. Neil Shah of UCLA, managed the side effects of her CML treatment.
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Making Tough Treatment Decisions About Leukemia
The diagnosis can seem like a cruel joke. One morning you wake up, feeling perfectly healthy and fit, and go to the doctor for a routine check-up. Standard blood work reveals high levels of white blood cells. More tests are performed, and suddenly you are one of over 4,000 Americans diagnosed each year with chronic myeloid leukemia. |
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Plotting a Plan of Attack Against Leukemia
Each year, approximately 7,000 people are diagnosed with CML. There are a growing number of treatment options for people with this form of leukemia, and with these new choices come new considerations, as doctor and patient plot a plan of attack. |
