Hello All,
My husband has been recently diagnosed with CML (2 weeks ago) in chronic phase. Until now he's still on hydroxyurea until we get some government help to access some TKI medicition. I have some questions:
1. Is it normal to be losing weight yet have a huge food appetite while he's still on hydroxyurea?
2. Understand from our specialist that in our country (Malaysia) the current TKI that is available is Nilotinib. And he is likely to be prescribed with nilotinib. However, based on my reading on many websites, normally CML patients would start with Imatinib unless there's feedback that the patient does not respond to imatinib then only change to nilotinib... can they straight away start with this second gen TKI?
Thanks in advance
jacq