Ariad Pharmaceuticals Inc fka ARIA

[Paulieme]

Sunday, September 5, 2010 Tyler is once again sprouting hair! It's just in time for the weather to start turning colder, so I am happy that he will have the little extra bit of insulation. It seems strange that he has had facial hair throughout, but the chemo does make him lose the hair on top of his head...

In any case, I hadn't posted a picture in a long time so I thought I would share his handsome face with friends and family again. :)

We are still enjoying the good news from last week and hope that his blood test results will continue to stay positive. If he can just coast long enough for the Ariad trial to open up (and convince them to take him on), then we have a shot at a new drug.

As Ariad has shown successful results for many patients who have disease that was resistant to the other drugs or just never reached a long term remission. The press release referenced above says:


"A complete hematologic response (CHR) was observed in 85 percent (22 of 26) of chronic phase CML patients evaluable for hematologic response (16 patients entered the study with a baseline CHR). A major hematologic response was observed in five of twelve (42 percent) evaluable patients with accelerated phase, blast phase or Ph+ ALL. " http://bledsoebattle.blogspot.com/