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Induction of hypomethylation and molecular response after decitabine therapy in patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia.
Blood - 15 Feb 2008
Oki Yasuhiro, Jelinek Jaroslav, Shen Lanlan, Kantarjian Hagop M, Issa Jean-Pierre J
Abstract excerpt
Decitabine's mechanism of action in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia remains incompletely understood. We studied the dynamics of neoplastic cell clearance during decitabine treatment (100 mg/m(2) per course every 4 weeks) using quantitative monitoring of mutant alleles by pyrosequencing. Patients with chronic myelomonocytic leukemia were first screened for JAK2 and NPM1 mutations, and 3 patients with mutations...
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