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The cancer drug known as Gleevec (United Stated) or Glivec (Europe) is the unquestioned superstar of the genetic approach to cancer. It is the LeBron James, Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain all rolled up into one. It is used in the treatment of chromic myelogenous leukemia (CML), a relatively rare cancer. Before Gleevec, CML killed 2300 Americans and after Gleevec, in 2009, it only killed 470 people – all using an oral medication with virtually no side effects. This is a truly amazing drug, so dramatically successful that it was thought to be the herald of an entirely new era of chemotherapy. At its introduction in the early 2000s, it was the dawn of a new age of targeted genetic ‘cures’ for cancer. Gleevec was supposed to be the beginning, not the end. But like any one-hit wonder, the first turned out to be the best. Genetic treatments will work wonders for genetic diseases, but the specific circumstances surrounding CML did not apply to most of the common cancers...[Read More ...]
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Gleevec’s false dawn or how we’re losing the war on cancer was originally posted by Ketogenic Diet
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