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The development of imatinib as a therapeutic agent for chronic myeloid leukemia
24 Dec 2004
Abstract excerpt
Imatinib has revolutionized drug therapy of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Preclinical studies were promising but the results of clinical trials by far exceeded expectations. Responses in chronic phase are unprecedented, with rates of complete cytogenetic response (CCR) of more than 40% in patients after failure of interferon-alpha (IFN) and more than 80% in newly diagnosed patients, a level of efficacy that led...
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