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Strategies to overcome resistance to targeted protein kinase inhibitors in the treatment of cancer.
Drugs in R&D - 1 Jan 2006
Buschbeck Marcus
Abstract excerpt
Inhibition of oncogenic protein kinases by small compound inhibitors has proven to be a valuable strategy for the directed and target-specific treatment of an ever-increasing number of cancer types. These include the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia with the Bcr-Abl inhibitor imatinib and non-small-cell lung cancer with the epidermal growth factor inhibitors erlotinib and gefitinib. Unfortunately, initially...
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