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Tyrosine kinase inhibitors: the first decade.
Current hematologic malignancy reports - 1 Apr 2010
Agrawal Meetu, Garg Ravin J, Cortes Jorge, Quintás-Cardama Alfonso
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The treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) drastically changed with the introduction of imatinib mesylate, a Bcr-Abl1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), in 1998. By directly targeting this leukemogenic protein kinase, imatinib affords patients with CML sustained chromosomal remissions, which translate into prolonged survival. However, there has been concern over the emergence of resistance to imatinib, and...
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