Ariad drug proves effective in curbing chronic leukemia in study

Written By Unknown on Sunday, 9 December 2012 | 05:29


Sun Dec 9, 2012 8:07am EST

(Reuters) – An initial leukemia drug from Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc separated a cancer from a bone pith of scarcely half of patients with a ongoing form of a illness who had stopped responding to other drugs, according to a 12-month follow-up of a pivotal drug trial.

The hearing of a drug, ponatinib, that concerned 444 patients, including 267 with ongoing myeloid leukemia who had formerly been treated with comparison drugs, also showed that 56 percent of ongoing patients achieved a study’s idea of a “major response,” definition a illness had scarcely left from a bone marrow.

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http://www.ezonearticle.com/2012/12/09/ariad-drug-proves-effective-in-curbing-chronic-leukemia-in-study/

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