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Second-line therapy and beyond resistance for the treatment of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia post imatinib failure.
Clinical lymphoma & myeloma - 1 Jan 2009
Jabbour Elias, Cortés Jorge E, Kantarjian Hagop
Abstract excerpt
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is characterized at the molecular level by the presence of the Philadelphia chromosome (Ph) and the resultant oncogenic signaling by the BCR-ABL fusion protein. The treatment and outlook for CML were revolutionized by the introduction of imatinib, but resistance is a substantial barrier to successful treatment in many patients. Introduction of the second-generation tyrosine kinase...
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