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  • Study: Cancer drug may pose heart danger

    07/23/2006 11:10:31 PM PDT · by neverdem · 5 replies · 391+ views
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | July 23, 2006 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
    AP SCIENCE WRITER WASHINGTON -- A successful cancer-fighting drug may also damage the heart, although a researcher says leukemia patients who need Gleevec should not abandon it. While effectively treating cancer, Gleevec can lead to heart failure in some patients, said Dr. Thomas Force, who teaches medicine at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. His study, published Sunday in the online edition of the journal Nature Medicine, was prompted by reports that 10 patients taking Gleevec for chronic myelogenous leukemia developed severe congestive heart failure. Gleevec, sold under the Glivec in some countries, had worldwide sales of...