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GLIVEC HISTORY AND TIMELINE

CML Events 1960-2006

GIST Events 1987-2006


GLIVEC has been approved in the EU and the US for the treatment of1:

  • Adult and pediatric patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome (bcr-abl) positive (Ph+) CML for whom bone marrow transplantation is not considered as the first line of treatment
  • Adult and pediatric patients with Ph+ CML in chronic phase after failure of interferon-alpha therapy, or in accelerated phase or blast crisis
  • Adult patients with KIT (CD 117)-positive unresectable and/or metastatic malignant GIST
  • The adjuvant treatment of adult patients who are at significant risk of relapse following resection of KIT (CD 117)-positive GIST. Patients who have a low or very low risk of recurrence should not receive adjuvant treatment
  • Adult patients with newly diagnosed Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL) integrated with chemotherapy
  • Adult patients with relapsed or refractory Ph+ ALL as monotherapy
  • Adult patients with myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative diseases (MDS/MPD) associated with platelet-derived growth factor receptor (PDGFR) gene rearrangements
  • Adult patients with advanced hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) and/or chronic eosinophilic leukemia (CEL) with FIP1L1-PDGFRa rearrangement
  • Adult patients with unresectable dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) and adult patients with recurrent and/or metastatic DFSP who are not eligible for surgery
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