curing cancer
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Scientists have made a drug, Gleevec, that can cure a type of cancer, Chronic Myeloid Leukemia .
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By Katelyn Wiita
A drug thought to cure cancer was invented
Brian Druker was the man who invented this drug
Bud Romine was close to death
Bud was given three years to live
He tried the drug, Gleevec
Within 17 days, Bud was back to perfect health
Mostly everyone else who tried it who had Chronic Myeloid Leukemia was cured
Gleevec fixes the damaged genes that cause the cancer
Scientists need to find all the damaged genes
Cancer is caused by more than one damaged gene
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