I never would have imagined that I could stave off a deadly blood cancer by taking a pill.
Yet that's exactly what I -- and thousands of others with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) -- do every day.
That little orange tablet known as Gleevec (imatinib) has led us back to normalcy. As a breast cancer survivor with many friends and family members waging their own cancer battles, I only wish there were more solutions this simple -- and this hopeful. Yes, we harbor a potentially fatal disease and the pill-taking may last forever, but life goes on. No one would guess I have leukemia. If it weren't for "the pill," I might not even remember I have it myself.