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Is The CML Cancer Curable?

Hi, I have been diagnosed with CML in the early stages. I am 69 years young. I am educated and appear to be in the early 50s. I was put on a drug called Tasigna Caps 150Mg 1 Cap 2 X daily. I am in the second month of treatment. Is my cancer curable at some point?
Fri, 5 Sep 2014
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Thanks for your question on HCM. CML is blood malignancy. It is having two phases. CML crisis and remission phase. Medicines are helpful to keep the patient in remission stage. So that crisis should not develop. But with time drugs starting to act poorly due to spread of disease. In present era bone marrow transplant is a good option. So take your drugs regularly, consult your oncologist and discuss about options of bone marrow transplantation.
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Is The CML Cancer Curable?

Thanks for your question on HCM. CML is blood malignancy. It is having two phases. CML crisis and remission phase. Medicines are helpful to keep the patient in remission stage. So that crisis should not develop. But with time drugs starting to act poorly due to spread of disease. In present era bone marrow transplant is a good option. So take your drugs regularly, consult your oncologist and discuss about options of bone marrow transplantation.