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Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Use in Pediatric Philadelphia Chromosome–Positive Acute Lymphoblastic Anemia
7 Dec 2011
Abstract excerpt
Until recently, pediatric Philadelphia chromosome-positive (Ph(+)) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) was associated with an extremely poor outcome when treated with chemotherapy alone, and only modest survival benefits were obtained with the widespread use of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The development of first-generation (imatinib) and second-generation (dasatinib and nilotinib) tyrosine...
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