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Dasatinib treatment of chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia: analysis of responses according to preexisting BCR-ABL mutations.
Blood - 3 Dec 2009
Müller Martin C, Cortes Jorge E, Kim Dong-Wook, Druker Brian J, Erben Philipp, Pasquini Ricardo, Branford Susan, Hughes Timothy P, Radich Jerald P, Ploughman Lynn, Mukhopadhyay Jaydip, Hochhaus Andreas
Abstract excerpt
Dasatinib is a BCR-ABL inhibitor with 325-fold higher potency than imatinib against unmutated BCR-ABL in vitro. Imatinib failure is commonly caused by BCR-ABL mutations. Here, dasatinib efficacy was analyzed in patients recruited to phase 2/3 trials with chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia with or without BCR-ABL mutations after prior imatinib. Among 1043 patients, 39% had a preexisting BCR-ABL mutation,...
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