(Source: Cancer Research UK) Improved treatments for chronic myeloid leukaemia have dramatically increased survival Wednesday 12 December 2012 National Cancer Intelligence Network Press Release Survival for people diagnosed with Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) has risen by nearly half, with around 58 per cent of people surviving their disease for at least five years compared with only around 40 per cent in the late 1990s, according to a new report from the National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN), published today. The improvements are largely down to a family of drugs called Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (TKIs) which have now become the standard treatment for the disease. The first of these...
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