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Treatment selection after imatinib resistance in chronic myeloid leukemia.
Targeted oncology - 1 Jan 2009
Jabbour Elias, Cortes Jorge, Kantarjian Hagop
Abstract excerpt
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a progressive and often fatal malignancy of the blood. The harbinger of CML is a chromosomal translocation that results in the synthesis of the BCR-ABL fusion protein, a constitutively active tyrosine kinase. The advent of imatinib, an inhibitor targeted specifically for BCR-ABL, represented a significant medical advance in CML therapy. However, patients with CML can exhibit...
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