1.   Apparently, the Accutane contains a substance, fenretinide, shown to kill cancer cells, notably cervical cancer and myeloid leukemia.

2.   Gleevec generated headlines several years ago after dramatically helping late-stage chronic myeloid leukemia patients while producing relatively few side effects.

3.   Her illness is called acute myeloid leukemia or acute myelogenous leukemia and is relatively rare in children.

4.   Occasionally, the industry has scored big hits like Herceptin for breast cancer and Gleevec for chronic myeloid leukemia and GIST, for a rare form of intestinal cancer.

5.   Stewart suffered a rare form of childhood cancer called acute myeloid leukemia.

6.   The drug had proved enormously successful in clinical trials to combat chronic myeloid leukemia, or CML.

7.   Chronic myeloid leukemia is caused by a protein that produces an abnormal chromosome.

8.   Chronic myeloid leukemia is a disease in which the bone marrow makes too many white blood cells.

9.   Chronic myeloid leukemia is caused by an abnormal protein that leads to a huge increase in the number of white blood cells in the body.

10.   Marrow transplants from unrelated donors can often cure victims of a form of blood cancer called chronic myeloid leukemia, a study found.