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Kinase domain mutations and responses to dose escalation in chronic myeloid leukemia resistant to standard dose imatinib mesylate.
Leukemia & lymphoma - 1 Jan 2010
Rajappa Senthil, Mallavarapu Krishna Mohan, Gundeti Sadashivudu, Roshnipaul Tara, Jacob Rachel Thomas, Digumarti Raghunadharao
Abstract excerpt
We studied kinase domain (KD) mutations, response to dose escalation, event free survival (EFS), and overall survival (OS) of 90 patients with chronic phase CML who were resistant to imatinib mesylate (IM) 400 mg. IM was escalated to 800 mg daily. There were 65 patients with hematologic failure and 25 with cytogenetic failure. Median duration on IM at resistance detection was 18 months (range, 3-48). Twenty nine...
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