Take a recent drug advertisement from a journal and retrieve 2 journal references mentioned in the advertisement to determine if the truly support the claim in the ad
Gleevec or Imatinib is drug which is found as a breakthrough in treatment of cancer. It is used to treat patients with CML, chronic mylogenous leukemia who are carrying philadelphia chromosome.
In, 1998, initially , Dr.drucker and his colleagues used Gleevec to trat CML, and drug caused cancer to disappear in almost 98% of patients.
References :
Gleevec : the breakthrough in cancer treatment, Leslie A. Pray, Ph.D, 2008, Nature
Cancer drug resistance, V.Karavasilis, Cancer drug design and discovery, 2008
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