THE WORLD’S LONGEST LIVING GLEEVEC (Imatinib) & Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor (TKI) & Kinase Inhibitor Survivor! Patient Advocate, 30 Yr Terminal CML Leukemia Survivor, Clinical Trials, Marrow Donation, US Army Retired, ΩΨΦ
Gleevec’s Anniversary On 10 May 2001, #Gleevec (#Imatinib) was approved by the FDA for use in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) and made the cover of TIME Magazine. It now works for 11 different types of #cancer. I was blessed to enter the Gleevec phase 1 clinical trial when it began 3 years prior, in 1998, and I became the World’s Longest Living Gleevec Survivor. When I was first diagnosed, in January 1995, I was given 3 years to live. However, I was able to get “Today’s medicine Yesterday,” and that 3 years became 30 years. #ClinicalTrials are a way of getting “Tomorrow’s Medicine Today.” #ClinicalResearch #TKI
Your testimony, as well as the others belonging to the treated patients, are behind the huge number of clinical responses, got with that great drug. Happy to have worked on its clinical studies and read you are fine. Keep going!
Your story is such an inspiration, Mel. Every time I see your name come across my feed, it’s a reminder of why I chose a career in cancer research. Keep on keepin’ on! Hope to run into you at ASCO.
Working on press materials for this launch was a highlight of my career! So pleased and gratified to hear of your success, Mel Mann, MBA, M.Ed. Keep it up!
Great, Mel!
Thank you Mel for your inspirational experience sharing!
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I remember this day sooo well. Everyone was calling the PAP program fo every disease known to man and dogs.
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3moOh I remember this well. Go Mel!