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Know the facts about bovine leukemia virus
2021-06-30 15:00:00| Beef
Know what the virus is and the routes of transmission.
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Bill Carteaux is battling leukemia for the third time
2018-11-14 22:51:19| Canadian Plastics Headlines
Carteaux, the longtime president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based Plastics Industry Association, began chemo treatments on Nov. 5. The post Bill Carteaux is battling leukemia for the third time appeared first on Canadian Plastics.
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J&J leukemia drug cuts death risk vs. chemo in new patients: study
2015-12-07 03:47:40| Food - Topix.net
Johnson & Johnson's and AbbVie's cancer drug Imbruvica significantly reduced the risk of death and disease progression compared with chemotherapy in previously untreated patients with a type of leukemia in a late stage study, paving the way for an expanded approval of the medicine. In the trial of 269 patients aged 65 and older with chronic lymphocytic leukemia , Imbruvica decreased risk of death by a statistically significant 85 percent compared with the chemotherapy chlorambucil, researchers reported on Sunday.
FDA OKs first generic for Gleevec leukemia pill
2015-12-04 19:54:52| Chemicals - Topix.net
" U.S. regulators have approved the first generic version of one of the first very effective " and expensive " cancer drugs, Gleevec, which costs about $10,000 a month. The Food and Drug Administration granted a subsidiary of Indian drugmaker Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. approval to sell generic Gleevec, known as imatinib mesylate, in 100-milligram and 400-milligram pills for chronic myeloid leukemia.
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NHK says health ministry confirms link between worker's leukemia and Fukushima blast
2015-10-20 11:25:10| Energy - Topix.net
The health ministry has for the first time confirmed that leukemia found in a worker at Tokyo Electric Power Co.' s Fukushima No.
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