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Mechanisms of resistance to imatinib in CML patients: a paradigm for the advantages and pitfalls of molecularly targeted therapy.
Current cancer drug targets - 1 Dec 2006
Ritchie E, Nichols G
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One of the challenges of cancer therapeutics is to discover targets unique to the tumor cell population. Constitutively activated tyrosine kinases play a role in the malignant phenotype in a number of different cancers. While the kinases may be present in the normal cell, the cancer cell is often dependent upon the activation of the kinase for the maintenance of malignant growth. Inhibition of kinase activation...
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