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| BASKETBALL GREAT ABDUL-JABBAR'S LEUKEMIA IS "VERY TREATABLE," LOYOLA EXPERT SAYS |
| MAYWOOD -- Retired basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabber has announced he has chronic myeloid leukemia (CML).Ten or 15 years ago, this would have been a very grim diagnosis. But today, CML "is a very treatable disease," said Dr. Scott Smith, a leukemia specialist at Loyola University Health System. "Three drugs on the market, including Gleevec, are very good at getting people into remission and keeping them in remission for a very long time."Smith is an associate professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
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| Based in the western suburbs of Chicago, Loyola University Health System is a quaternary care system with a 61-acre main medical center campus, the 36-acre Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus and 28 primary and specialty care facilities in Cook, Will and DuPage counties. The medical center campus is conveniently located in Maywood, 13 miles west of the Chicago Loop and 8 miles east of Oak Brook, Ill. The heart of the medical center campus, Loyola University Hospital, is a 569-licensed-bed facility. It houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center and the Ronald McDonald� Childrens Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center. Also on campus are the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, Loyola Outpatient Center, Center for Heart & Vascular Medicine and Loyola Oral Health Center as well as the LUC Stritch School of Medicine, the LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Loyola Center for Fitness. Loyola's Gottlieb Memorial Hospital campus in Melrose Park includes the 264-bed community hospital, the Gottlieb Center for Fitness and the Marjorie G. Weinberg Cancer Care Center.
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