When the Food and Drug Administration approved Gleevec to treat a form of leukemia in 2001, it ushered in a new era in cancer ...
The FDA approved Gleevec in 2001. Now, 25 years later, millions of leukemia patients around the world who faced a death ...
Dr. Brian Druker, director of the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, championed the drug that became Gleevec. When Mel Mann was diagnosed with cancer at 37 years old, he ...