Tracking Treatment Progress: Lab Tests For CML
Tracking faulty chromosomes is routine for people with chronic myeloid leukemia. Listen as experts explain why sophisticated laboratory tests that count chromosomes are important in determining how well a patient is responding to therapy.
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The Faulty Gene Behind Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
The genetics of chronic myeloid leukemia are now well understood. Listen to researchers as they explain the path they took to their remarkable discoveries beginning over 40 years ago, in a research lab in Philadelphia.
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CML Treatment: Medication or Transplantation?
Mounting evidence from clinical trials shows that patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) may have long-term treatment success if they choose to forgo the only known cure for their disease. Watch and listen as CML experts explain how a promising drug now complicates the decision facing many patients: whether to seek a bone marrow transplant.
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CML After Age 65: What are the Treatment Options?
Some treatment options are not available for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia who are over 65 years old. But most can still look forward to a range of effective medical therapies and a good quality of life. Listen to one man's success story.
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Facts to Know While Undergoing Therapy for CML
In treating Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), doctors admit that they don't have all the answers. So patients must learn enough about CML to help make good treatment decisions. That means understanding the natural course of the disease and how one's own body responds to therapy. Tune in as doctors describe what CML patients need to know.
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Doctor and Patient Teamwork: Management of CML
For patients with chronic myeloid leukemia, establishing a close relationship with their doctor is very important. With new treatment options available, patients and doctors need to be able to communicate freely and be aware of the latest research developments. Find out how CML patients, and the doctors who treat them, can work together to treat this disease.
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Side Effects of CML Therapy: What Can Be Done?
Even "targeted" therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia is not without side effects. Some, like low blood counts, are serious. Hear how one patient, along with her oncologist, Dr. Neil Shah of UCLA, managed the side effects of her CML treatment.
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