Several years ago, a group of oncologists penned an editorial on drug prices, with Gleevec (imatinib mesylate), the groundbreaking tyrosine kinase inhibitor, as their illustration of egregious ...

Pharmacies across the U.S. will begin receiving shipments of a generic form of the revolutionary cancer pill Gleevec this week after the drug lost its patent protection on Monday. The generic ...

In this episode of the “CURE® Talks Cancer” podcast Mel Mann discusses his participation in the clinical trial for Gleevec and how it changed the trajectory of his life. In 1998, Mel Mann received his ...

Mann would be among the earliest patients to try a new medication called Gleevec. He might get a dose too low to be effective and the drug might not work at all, the doctor warned. But Mann ...

How do scientists develop new treatments for disease? With Gleevec, a remarkable cancer drug, the approach was to target the disease at the cellular and subcellular level. When people say Gleevec ...

“And then throughout history, certain drugs come along that changed history, and Gleevec is one of those drugs. And you never know what type of drugs can be invented.” I would say to my younger self, ...

ZURICH, Feb 1 (Reuters) - India's Sun Pharma launched a generic version of Novartis's leukaemia drug Gleevec on Monday in the United States and hopes to poach a third of sales in six months by ...