Sydney Lupkin
speaker
1,064 appearances
108 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3d ago
Sydney Lupkin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the anniversary of a pill that revolutionized cancer care.
Oh, that's way better.
Not that I don't love you.
What pill?
So the drug is called Gleevec, and May 10th marks 25 years since the Food and Drug Administration first approved it.
Okay.
So Gleevec, why is this pill such a big deal?
Well, it's considered one of the first targeted cancer therapies.
And what it really did was make some cancers that were once fatal not so fatal anymore.
Survivable.
Wow, that is a big deal.
Yeah.
And I talked about it with this guy in Atlanta.
His name is Mel Mann.
And he told me that in 1995, he was dealing with some back pain and fatigue, but it wasn't really clear why.
Then, after an MRI showed what was going on with his bone marrow, he was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia, a kind of blood cancer.
He was 37 at the time and had a five-year-old daughter at home.
The doctors told him he had three years to live.
So after his diagnosis in January 1995, Mel starts doing bone marrow drives, hoping to find a match and get a life-saving bone marrow transplant.
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