1. Amgen is seeking an approval for the drug to help rebuild immune systems in those leukemia patients. 2. Approval by the independent panel, which consists primarily of oncologists who treat leukemia patients, usuallly leads to FDA approval. 3. -- A new technique offers a tantalizing hope of greatly increasing the number of leukemia patients who can have potentially life saving bone marrow transplants. 4. A new technique offers a tantalizing hope of greatly increasing the number of leukemia patients who can have potentially life saving bone marrow transplants. 5. A study with leukemia patients and a single gastrointestinal cancer case are described in the latest New England Journal of Medicine. 6. Currently, its use with chemotherapy is limited to certain leukemia patients, while Neupogen is used for a much wider variety of patients. 7. Even a leukemia patient declining a transfusion would normally have time to change her mind before death. 8. Gleevec, the promising new cancer drug already approved for treating some leukemia patients, has researchers cautiously optimistic that it might help fight prostate cancer. 9. Gleevec generated headlines several years ago after dramatically helping late-stage chronic myeloid leukemia patients while producing relatively few side effects. 10. Haley Joel Osment as a leukemia patient who wants to sue God. |