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Treatment options for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia who are resistant to or unable to tolerate imatinib.
Clinical therapeutics - 1 May 2010
Stein Brady, Smith B Douglas
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BACKGROUND: Imatinib has been found to substantially improve outcomes in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) compared with previously available therapies. However, its use is complicated by development of resistance or drug intolerance, prompting dose escalation or a trial of dasatinib or nilotinib, the second-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs). OBJECTIVES: This article reviews the mechanisms...
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