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Second generation inhibitors of BCR-ABL for the treatment of imatinib-resistant chronic myeloid leukaemia.
Nature reviews. Cancer - 1 May 2007
Weisberg Ellen, Manley Paul W, Cowan-Jacob Sandra W, Hochhaus Andreas, Griffin James D
Abstract excerpt
Imatinib, a small-molecule ABL kinase inhibitor, is a highly effective therapy for early-phase chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML), which has constitutively active ABL kinase activity owing to the expression of the BCR-ABL fusion protein. However, there is a high relapse rate among advanced- and blast-crisis-phase patients owing to the development of mutations in the ABL kinase domain that cause drug resistance....
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