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Thank you to Dr. Druker and all those whose efforts have resulted in this miracle called Gleevec. It has given hope to my husband, who was recently diagnosed with CML. I feel that he has a chance at life that he may not have otherwise had. Thank you does not express our gtatitude.

Dr. Druker and Team: I have had the opportunity to speak to many people who have gotten their lives back through the use of your drug. As the Patient Services Manager for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society -Minnesota Chapter, I would like to say a heartfelt THANK YOU for making a difference for so many people. Your dedication, knowledge and caring nature has truly changed lives. Keep up the great work, it just may put me out of a job some day! Again, thanks and bless you all!

Dr. Druker,et al

My wife, Nancy, was dxed 11-99 and the intf. nearly did her in. We couldn't get in the trials. Then last May your miracle became available. She now has her life back. Thank you from all of us, with all our hearts and God Bless.



Roland and Nancy Sutton

Thanks to all of you for all the support and information that I have been able to get from the web site. Thank you Dr. Druker, as you have given my husband a quality of life that is worth living. Dx in Sept. 2000 and on interferon until May 2001, when the Interferon could no longer be tolerated. Once Louie was on Gleevic there was a complete transformation to a healthy happy living person. Thanks for giving us more time together and hopefully to grow old together.

Nancy and Louie Sambuco

Dear Dr. Druker and Team: I am so grateful to you and your support group for making it possible to return to myself and the world again. Geevec has been a gift from heaven and you for my family, friends and me. I cannot thank you enough for your hard work and dedication to make this new drug a reality for so many of us with cml. Earl

"Thank you" is totally insufficient to express my appreciation to Dr. Druker and other medical scientists who have given me more of life.

(Dx. Feb2000, 100%Ph+, started Gleevec March 2001. At 36 weeks I am 5% Ph+)

John Nov 29, 2001.

Thank you Dr.Druker and your team for all the hard work and perseverance in giving us Gleevec - I have been on it now for 12 months and have not looked back.

I was DX Dec of 99 with cml. I truley thought my life was over. To old for a transplant(49 yrs) and to many other health problems. i was on Hydrea and interferon with no results. Then came Gleevec. Thank God for giving Dr. Drucker the insight for research. He truly is a God send. No words can say how grateful I am for Dr. Drucker and all of the others involved with the research of Gleevec...God Bless you all. You have given me my life back... Truley, Doris Clark...

I want to personally thank and congratulate Dr. Druker. Our lives have been saved with this new medical break-through. Deepest appreciation to Novartis Pharmaceuticals, to all the researchers & developers of Gleevec. Also a special thanks to The Leukemia/Lymphoma Society for their help & assistance at my time of need. We live in a wonderful and beautiful world, full of miracles...Prayers do get answered. Continued success in "making cancer history".. MDACC slogan.- Dr Kantarjian patient dx 1/99 Gleevec 11/00 great results, keeping the faith, always. Ron Eaton- Ocala, FL. I hope to meet you in Orlando @ ASH

Dear Dr Druker We would like to thank you immensly for the wonderful pill Gleevec. It is a hope for us especially my father Paul Zammit who has been suffering from Cml since 1996. Now he started on Gleevec and his blood counts are coming back to normal with Hgb of 11.6 . Thank you for your work in providing humanity such a miraclous pill.



Thank you always and may God Bless you

Valerie Vassallo

From Malta

I am a GIST patient at UW Madison. My days were numbered untill STI 571 was given to me in April 2001. Large tumors in the liver and lungs have shrunk dramatically in size, disappeared or remained the same. However I am not out of the woods yet as there is a small tumor on my kidney which has grown only by milimeters but it will have to be checked out. However I am still thankful to Dr. Drucker because he has bought me time to keep trying and with prayers this other little bump will be just that a little bump in the road with hopefully more continued success. Keep going and keep trying. You are truly on to something. Thank you, Pat Ford and family

Dear Dr Druker - I was diagnosed with CML in July 2000 after 2 years of slowly deteriorating health and well being. I was put on Interferon for 10 months and by May 2001, it was doubtful whether I'd survive till the end of the year. I commenced Glivec in June 2001 and almost immediately began to feel and look better. Now 5 months down the track I'm well into cytogenetic remission and feeling terrific. My heartfelt thanks and gratitude for a magnificent innovation in drug therapy which has transformed my life and returned me to health.

Thank you, Dr Druker, from another grateful person who has been lucky enough to personally experience the help and hope that Gleevec gives us. I have CML, and it is responding very well to treatment with Gleevec. I am also very pleased to see that Gleevec appears to work against GISTs, and may also be helping some persons with certain brain tumors.



Truly, your fine work has allowed thousands of people to have new and practical hope for their futures. What a wonderful gift you have given us!

Congratulations and a huge thanks to an incredible man and his team. I have been taking Gleevec for 10 months now and am feeling fantastic. (Almost forgotten how rotten I felt on Interferon and actually looking forward to next biopsy). After 6 months FISH dropped from 86% to 1% - WOW.

As a CML patient on interferon from Dec,2000 until my switch to gleevec in April,2000(extreme intolerance to inf.), I join the thousands of people who thank Dr. Druker for his pioneering work, Novartis for its commitment to this medicine's development, and Jerry Mayfield for his wonderfully informative and comforting "Unofficial STI-571 Website". At the risk of repeating what so many of my fellow CML patients have already said, I too thank Dr. Druker for helping me to return to a normal life.

Was on Interferon for 8 years. In March of 2001 my bloodcount began to rise. The doctor said there is new drug out there that hasn't been approved yet. We will start it as soon as it is approved. Started May 15. Blood count back to normal within 1 month. I will live to draw every penny out of my social security account plus interest. My deepest graditude to all of you who worked to give us this miracle. Thank you.

My husband, Bob, gave blood on Aug. 13th and found out he had CML. He is 54 and had a heart attack 71/2 years ago. He started on 4-100mg. tabs/day but had high fevers. He is now successfully taking 2/day. He feels great and has his energy back. His white count is 11,000. It was 129,000 when we found out. Thanks to you he can continue to work and live a normal life. Thank you for making my husband feel better and for giving us so much hope!

have had cml since july 97. I was on interferon for almost 5 years, started gleevec june of this year and I have been doing great. Back to having a full life God bless all of you and thanks for everthing

Bill

Dear Dr Druker there are'nt any words to express our thanks.My husband had been on hydrea for 8 years with miserable side effects.Since starting gleevec 10 months ago he is a changed person and once again has quality in his life.God bless you always.

We would like to say thank you to Jerry Mayfield for all of his effort, Dr. Brian Druker for his energy, knowledge, and resilience, Dr. Hanna Khoury at Washington University of St. Louis, MO who treated Tracie's mom Christine, and the great people at Novartis.

First giving honor to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who makes life and living possible! Thank you Dr. Druker, and others who helped you, for your hard work and diligence in finding a way for us to have a better quality of life. May God continue to bless all that you do.

What a terrific tribute to a terrific man.

What a wonderful album for a wonderful man! I've only been on gleevec for 6 days, but I know it is going to work!!! God bless you Dr Druker and everyone else involved in this wonderful drug!

CONGRATULATIONS FROM ESTONIA ( a little country near Baltic Sea and Finland).

I have been on Gleevec for 14 days (diagnosed in 02/01).I hope that my sandglass is turned round.I am very thankful even though when there will be some more sand for me.

Thank You For Gleevec.After 1yr on Int, My life has gone back to normal.