Contributions

  • Weinberg, Robert A. (Robert Allan), 1942- - Contributor

Publication

2013 - The Experiment, LLC, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

75,750 words, Guess

Page Count

303 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC616.99/419042
  • LCCRC643 .W36 2013

Description

This work discusses the history of a genetic mutation, discovered in 1959, that causes chronic myeloid leukemia, and traces the research and breakthroughs that led to the creation of a drug that makes this once-fatal illness now treatable. It focuses on what is widely viewed as the 'poster child' of rational drug development in the cancer research world. The history of the founding of a genetic mutant chromosome in the indication of Chronic myeloid leukemia disease, and the subsequent development of "Gleevec," is the keynote of this publication.

Subjects

Topics

CancerHistoryTherapyResearchImatinibGeneticsLeukemia

People

David S. Hungerford (1938-)

Other Editions

  • The Philadelphia chromosome: a mutant gene and the quest to cure cancer at the genetic levelThe Experiment, LLC2013-01-01

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