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  • Drug for Symptoms Turns Out to Be a Surprising Treatment for Blood Disease

    05/15/2005 7:04:53 PM PDT · by Pharmboy · 1 replies · 569+ views
    The Associated Press ^ | May 15, 2005 | Marilynn Marchione
    ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Doctors were just hoping to treat symptoms when they gave people with a deadly blood disorder a drug to reduce the need for transfusions. To their astonishment, signs of the disease itself disappeared in nearly half of them. Specialists said the experimental drug, Revlimid, now looks like a breakthrough and the first effective treatment for many people with myelodysplastic syndrome, or MDS, which is even more common than leukemia. "It may be, if not eradicating the disease, putting it into what I would call deep remission," said Dr. David Johnson, a cancer specialist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer...