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Leukemia Pill Shows 86 Percent Remission
MSNBC.com ^
| Dec. 5, 2004
| Reuters
Posted on 12/05/2004 5:12:13 PM PST by fritzz
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Just keeps getting better and better.
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:12:13 PM PST
by
fritzz
To: vanburen
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:16:32 PM PST
by
fritzz
(Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers)
To: fritzz
Damn evil drug companies. [/sarcasm]
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:17:18 PM PST
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Troops.)
To: vanburen; neverdem
Sorry Vanburen, wrong ping.
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:18:49 PM PST
by
fritzz
(Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers)
To: jigsaw
Now if they would just make the Canadians pay for this stuff.
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:20:04 PM PST
by
fritzz
(Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers)
To: jigsaw
Exactly! It won't be six months after this med is released before some pinhead will be decrying the cost of modern medicine. Nevermind that a cure may have resulted from the R&D and commercial sales of the product. Either death would have been preferred, or the socialist promise of a free ride will be resurected once again.
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:21:30 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
To: fritzz
The miracles of modern chemistry.
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:22:50 PM PST
by
clee1
(Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
To: fritzz
This is great news. We're living in interesting times, aren't we?
My family has been touched by chronic myeloid leukemia TWICE. First my mom in 1980 and then my mother-in-law in 1990. We were told at M.D. Anderson that this type of leukemia skips every other generation which would put our kids at greatest risk.
Knowing there's a possible cure now gives me great hope.
Thanks for the article.
To: All
(sarcasm)Bristol-Myers-Squibb....isn't it that Canadian drug company?(/sarcasm)
To: DoughtyOne; jigsaw
I'd give every dime I own to turn back the clock 31 years and give my dad the chance of beating leukemia with this type of drug.
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:30:59 PM PST
by
kstewskis
(Political correctness is intellectual terrorism.......M Gibson)
To: moondoggie
We been touched with AML which caused by radiation. 30 years ago most Leukemia patients were considered terminal illnesses.
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:35:04 PM PST
by
fritzz
(Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers)
To: fritzz
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:37:45 PM PST
by
zarf
To: kstewskis
That's a normal human response. It's the healthy response IMO.
Take care.
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:39:41 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservatives)
To: fritzz
My father, aged 53, died of acute myeloblastic leukemia in 1980. At the time I remember thinking that someday there will no doubt be a cure and I wondered how I'd feel about it.
I'm delighted. Deeply wish it had been available for him, but glad for all the others who will be helped.
Now that I'm 50 myself I realize just how young 53 is.
To: kstewskis
I'd give every dime I own to turn back the clock 31 years and give my dad the chance of beating leukemia with this type of drug. Amen! Blessings to your Dad. I'm sure he's smiling on you for your thinking of him with such love.
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:42:45 PM PST
by
jigsaw
(God Bless Our Troops.)
To: fritzz
Two decades ago, I had the privilege of serving on the Board of the Leukemia Society of America. At that time we were raising money for research and other help, in hopes of getting half of the people with the disease to survive at least five years. This is magnificent news.
Congressman Billybob
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To: M. Thatcher
I'm winning the battle so far with AML. Wish your dad had the stuff I have.
I'd love to see 53 again.
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:44:02 PM PST
by
fritzz
(Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers)
To: Congressman Billybob
We've come a long way. 80% Remission rate with AML.
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posted on
12/05/2004 5:46:08 PM PST
by
fritzz
(Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers)
To: fritzz
It's wonderful news for patients and their families who all suffer when a person becomes ill with Leukemia. The sad part is that the general public think they are going to get miracle drugs like these without having to actually pay for them. People scream about high drug prices, but they must realize that drug companies must do R &D, trials, and then if approved, all of the costs associated with the manufacturing/distribution of the product. Lump all the R & D and trials that ultimately fail into the cost of the new successful drug as well. That cost must
be spread out across the board in order to feed the new R & D and trials that the companies are always doing looking for the next billion+ club for a new drug.
To: fritzz
I'm winning the battle so farGood news. Continued blessings and good health to you.
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