Thread: Six month follow up on Nilotinib trial.
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Old 05-13-2015, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by GerryW View Post
I wonder if the dose is similar to the one used for leukemia. Like the rest of the chemotherapy tribe it has some rough side effects at that dose.
It's not. The standard dose for chemo is either 300mg or 400mg 2X/day. The dosage for this trial was either 150mg or 300mg once per day. This is the reason there have been much less side effects than with chemo use.
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