Nonadherence to Gleevec in GIST patients is common, with cognitive functioning, TDM, and social support as key indicators. A machine learning model using 64 covariates identified 19 significant ...

NEW YORK, June 5 (Reuters) - Bristol-Myers Squibb's cancer drug Sprycel may be superior to the already highly effective standard medicine Gleevec in treating newly diagnosed patients with chronic ...

HealthDay News — The FDA has expanded indications for imatinib mesylate tablets (Gleevec, Novartis) to include treatment of adults who have undergone surgical removal of CD117-positive ...

Dr. Ajay Gupta of the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center discussed basics of gastrointestinal stromal tumors. Dr. Ajay Gupta of the Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, ...

W A S H I N G T O N, June 22 -- Two factors — a geneticmutation and the excessive production of a key enzyme — havecaused some patients with very advanced leukemia to developresistance to the new anti ...

Pharmacies across the U.S. will begin receiving shipments of a generic form of the revolutionary cancer pill Gleevec this week after the drug lost its patent protection on Monday. The generic version ...

Patients with advanced non-progressing gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) who discontinued imatinib had more rapid progression, faster development of resistance, and worse overall survival (OS), a ...

Use of the University of California Los Angeles Integrated Staging System to Predict Survival in Renal Cell Carcinoma: An International Multicenter Study To study the platelet-derived growth factor ...

For most of the 20th century, doctors treated cancer by hitting it with everything they had. Radical surgery, high-dose radiation, brutal chemotherapy. Even when it worked, the collateral damage was ...