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6-7 Month PCR Results

Hi All

Just got my latest results since my 6-7 month Quantative PCR.

Dx 11/12/06
11th Dec 2006 - 113%
10th Feb 2007 - 35%
10th May 2007 - 2.5%
10th July 2007 - 0.293%
Original dose was 400mg,since my last visit at the end of June he has increased my dose to 600mg just to smash the pesky BCR/AbL even harder

Yahooooo Im below zero you little beautie>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Im so happy words cannot express.

Im officially at or below a 3 log Reduction MMR within 6-7 months and hopefully onwards and downwards to a 4 Logger(PCRU here I come). Dr Richard Herrmann @ Royal Perth Hospital rang me to give me the good news. His very words were Ivan you better stop off on the way home tonight and Buy a bottle of Champagne. I asked why? He then told me my results. This puts me in the 87%-100% that is still progression free after 5 years according to all the trials . I think this seems the safest place to be at the moment. The next step is to be undetectable, then Ill be even happier.

Cheers

Ivan
Perth Western Australia

Ivan,
Congratulations, that is lovely news.
Trish.x

Well Ivan you are a text book result of Glivec therapy. You have done extremely well. You can get on with your life and leave CML in the background.
You are having similar weather to us in Perth right now and it is your winter ! Hope that champagne tasted good !
Best wishes
Elizabeth

Y A H O O O ! ! ! Y I P P E E E ! ! !

Number 1076 in the Zero Club

Zavie

Zavie Miller (age 69)
Ottawa, Canada, dxd AUG/99
INF OCT/99 to FEB/00, CHF
Gleevec since MAR/27/01 (400 mg)
CCR SEP/01. #102 in Zero Club
2.8 log reduction Sep/05
3.0 log reduction Jan/06
> 4 log reduction Nov/06
zmiller@sympatico.ca

Ivan,
this is wonderful news for you and i must thank you for sharing your obvious elation with all of us.
so often we forget the fact that this drug has, and is still, saving a lot of peoples lives.
yes it does have side effects -life has side effects!- but so many of us have continued to survive against all odds and predictions. just a few years ago the CML forums and message boards were full of people who were suffering and who eventually lost the battle with this terrible disease.
when the first Glivec trials started no one dared hope that over 90% of chronic stage patients (and healthy %'s of AP and BC patients) would now be living with CML as a chronic disease.
wishing you the best response possible,
sandy C ;o)