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Chronic myeloid leukemia: clinical impact of BCR-ABL1 mutations and other lesions associated with disease progression.
Seminars in oncology - 1 Feb 2012
Ernst Thomas, Hochhaus Andreas
Abstract excerpt
The introduction of the tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) imatinib, dasatinib, and nilotinib has dramatically improved the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). However, a minority of CML patients in chronic phase (CP) and a substantial proportion of patients in advanced phase are either initially refractory to TKIs or eventually develop resistance. Rates of resistance and relapse directly correlate with...
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