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Thank you Dr. Druker for your life investment of your research to save so many lives. I often think of how blessed I am to have CML and to do so well on Gleevec. I enjoy a wonderful life, watch, love and play with my grandchildren, family and friends because of your sacrifices to do your research.
I feel privileged to be your patient and be under your care. God Bless You and your loved ones.
Carol Freeman

Dear Dr. Druker,
I was on Gleevec after coming off INF and I can't tell you what a relief it was. It served me for 4 years and then it was decided that I was not responding and never responded to anything but the very minimum, but I am so thankful that Gleevec was here until I could get in other trials. I have been in trials for over 15 years and not PCRU, but alive. Your name has become synonymous with "cure", and we all expect it to come some day, many thanks to your not giving up on us.
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To appreciate your contributions, one need only talk to the doctors who treat us CML patients. The two doctors who have treated me each teared up when discussing how not so long ago, at the beginning of their careers, they often lost their patients, whereas now they watch them live life fully -- and for years! I was diagnosed in spring of '05 and I don't plan to go anywhere for a long, long time. Thank you, Dr. Druker!

Dear Dr. Druker,
I have had the pleasure of actually being in your office two times as a patient and I tried to tell you how thankful I am that you saved my life but then as now, words fail me.

I started taking Gleevec on June 14, 2003. I have been undetectable for about eight years and remain so to this day.

I will never stop being grateful, to be reminded I only need to look at my three grand daughters that I would never have seen if not for Gleevec.

In terms of money I am certainly not a rich person, but in 2003 when I was dx no amount of money could have bought my life back anyway.

A kind man, named Brian Druker, who cares about people he may never even see, bought the rest of my life for me, no questions ask. Hopefully, all of us who have been given this gift will also learn the gift of compassion from him.
Thank you Dr. Druker, thank you for the second chance.
Sincerely Yours,
Ruth Collins

Thank you Dr. Druker for all the wonderful work you do for CML patients. I was just dx w/CML this past Christmas Eve/2011. I was admitted to the hosp. for a few days. My college kids and hubby held off Christmas until I got out.
One of my brothers brought the Smithsonian article to me. I can't tell you how educational it is.
Just getting to some web sites to check out my choices for treatment.
Tx again
C

Hi Dr. Druker,

For us you are gifted by god for doing such a noble cause and saving lives of so many people in the world.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for inventing the miracle drug and wish you get successful in all the trials you undertake.

Dear Dr Druker

My wife Fiona contracted CML over 5 years ago and has been able to live a full active life using Glivec. We cannot thank you enough for the work that you have done and for giving Fiona back her life

I teach chemistry here in the UK and your research is an inspiration - I hope very much that you are awarded the Nobel prize you so richly deserve. Your name should be remembered in history along with the other great medical and scientific pioneers.

Here in the UK we are battling with NICE - the authority which recommends drug availability in our health service - to allow haematologists to prescribe the follow-up drugs dasatinib and nilotinib in those cases where Glivec fails. They work on the same principles as Glivec and are highly successful for some patients. Your research has opened up avenues which will benefit hundreds of thousands of people in the years to come

Thank you, Dr. Druker. As I was having a bone marrow biopsy, I asked the doctor what the treatment would be if I had CML. He leaned toward me and said, "Just a little pill." I didn't believe him. After 8 and one half years on Gleevec, I am a believer. I have had minimal side effects after about 2 years. I didn't know how lucky I am until I read the article in the Smithsonian.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Thank you from my heart Dr. Druker!
I've been on Gleevec for three plus years now ( MMR) and have found many ways to reduce the side effects. CML and Gleevec have changed my life, much for the better! And thanks also for being such a great doctor!

Thank you for pursuing your research against all odds to discover Gleevec. We read the article about you in Smithsonian May issue. What surprised me most is that you had no personal connection to CML. Thats why I think its a miracle that you discovered Gleevec. My husband was dx 2005. He's still on 400 mg/daily. But the side effects are ongoing, esp. the stomach issues, fatigue & swelling of eyes. Hoping you might continue to work on finding a cure. Your brilliance and tenacity are amazing.

10 years on Glivec & still doing well....thank you for your wonderful work and the opportunity to see life afresh

Thank you for making it possible to celebrate another mother's day with my mom.

I just finished reading, "The Triumph of Dr. Druker" in the current issue of Smithsonian magazine. I recommend it to all CML patients and their families who think they know something about Dr. Druker and the story of Gleevic. I was DXed in January 2002 and have been a student of Gleevic since then; I became active in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society first as a runner in its TNT program and more recently as a member of the board of the National Capital Area Chapter. I was surprised at how much I learned from the article. The story of Dr. Druker is well told, and the science of CML is clearly explained with very helpful illustrations.

Over the years I've benefitted from Dr. Druker's advice through his continuing research, and even directly when I was able to talk to him by phone during an LLS-sponsored CML seminar. Not a day goes by that I don't appreciate Dr. Druker's work -- having to take that orange pill every day helps. I've been CML-free for 9 years and expect to be so for quite a while. As Dr. Druker once told me, I'll probably die with it rather than from it.

I've been on Gleevec for nine years now and am happy to be doing well. I just attended my youngest daughter's graduation from the University of Michigan (grad school). Without your perseverance and belief in yourself (I just read about you in Smithsonian magazine), I could not have enjoyed this precious moment and many others like it in the last few years.
Thank you.

Thank you Dr. Druker for saving so many lives and for all of your hard work and dedication to this cause. You truly are an angel on earth.

Thank you Dr Druker. I do not see any messages from South Africa, but this one does and just to be grateful for people like you.

Best wishes.
Niek Louw

Dear Dr Druker, Thank you doesn't seem to say enough. Your many years of hard work and dedication have lead to so many CML patients like me being here today. My family and my young music students say thank you too. But especially, I say thank you for persisting for us. We are considered a minority in the big scheme of things but I don't feel unimportant. I'm glad I still have many years to live now.

Hello Dr. Druker
Thanks a lotttttttt for glivec.
My husband was diagoned with CML in Jan 2009 and has been on glivec since then. It was more than a year only to our marriage when he was diagonsed with CML. I was scared to the hell, ddnt wanna loose him... and then came to know about glivec thru novartis...

Thanks a lot and lot and lot for you effort many people are indebted to you for this.
Thanks and GOD BLESS YOU

Dr Druker
There is not enough words to express my appreciation for your hardwork and vision which made us fight leukemia back with best target drug therapy. I have been diagonised back in 2003 and start with 400 mg gleevec right after. Thank you again and GOD BLESS you.

Dr. Druker,

Although we have never met, I wanted to express my gratitude for all your research and time spent on finding a cure for CML. As a newly diagnosed patient in blast crisis, at the young age of 44, I thought all hope was lost for a future with my husband and children...I have been on 800 mg of Gleevec per day since Dec 3/09 and am doing better than my Dr. here had ever expected...after 6 days on the meds I was at a .94 log reduction and now after just a couple of months I have had a 2.82 log reduction...although I know that a BMT is most likely in my future - I thank God everyday for Gleevec and what it has done for me in such a short time...

No words can express my appreciation for all that you have done and continue to do for the CML community...

Cheryl Thornton

Thank you so much for everything you have done for CML patients.My husband was dx 1-10-07.He was forty at the time. Thank you so much for all the hard work, words can't express how grateful we are!!!!

Nancy Wells

On behalf of the Pester family, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your dedication and support to all CML patients. Our daughter Michelle, was diagnosed in Sept 09 at the age of 29, she is responding well to Glivec. We are very fortunate to have this treatment today, so thank you once again.

Although it may sound strange, but I view my present situation with a mixture of bad luck immediately followed by good luck. As a friend put it when I was first diagnosed,"if you've got to have it, at least you got the right one".

There is only one reason for this anomaly. That reason is you Dr. Druker.

Thank you Dr. Druker, although like most of those who you have effected so significantly, we will probably never meet, but know that many of us know what it is you have done for each of us.

Thanks for your caring and efforts. Without both we would not have this time, (however long that may be) to enjoy our life & families. It has now been 6 yrs. and appears to be many more ahead.

It must be a strange feeling for you to know how many people you have saved. Just maybe, the gratitude we have, can make up in some small way for the years you devoted our life to it's development.

Thank you for all the tireless work you did to get gleevec to the market.
My son was diagnosed two years ago. He is now pcru and has a three month old healthy son of his own.

You have taken time to respond to my emails a couple of times and your words of advice have been very important.

Again from the bottom of my family's heart, thank you very much.

Garry Gibson

Thank you so much for your work with CML, I was diagnosed at age 50. Its been 3 yrs and at the time I was diagnosed, it was very scary times. Look forward to new generations of meds and look forward to many more years.