Cancer Therapy

Drug that battles resistance to leukemia pill Gleevec shown to be effective against cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 4th, 2006

An experimental therapy that battles drug resistance in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) has proved "extremely effective" in fighting cancer, giving patients for whom all conventional therapies have failed another option, researchers at University of California, Los Angeles's Jonsson Cancer Center reported.

The Bristol-Myers Squibb therapy, Sprycel (dasatinib), treats CML that has mutated and becomes resistant to the leukemia pill Gleevec, said Dr. Charles Sawyers, a professor of hematology/oncology, a Jonsson Cancer Center researcher and lead author of the study, published in a recent issue of the peer-reviewed New England Journal of Medicine.

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2006-07-04)

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