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Mutations in ABL kinase domain are associated with inferior progression-free survival.
Leukemia & lymphoma - 1 Jun 2010
Sharma Pratibha, Mohanty Sujata, Kochupillai Vinod, Kumar Lalit
Abstract excerpt
Imatinib mesylate is currently the drug of choice for all phases of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Despite the initial high rates of hematological and cytogenetic responses, many patients develop resistance. We prospectively studied 40 patients with CML with primary cytogenetic resistance to imatinib mesylate. A semi-nested reverse transcriptase-PCR approach was used for amplification of the ABL kinase domain,...
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