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[The quality practice of molecular-genetic testing in the era of molecular target therapy in chronic myelogenous leukemia].
Rinsho byori. The Japanese journal of clinical pathology - 1 Oct 2012
Miyachi Hayato, Matsushita Hiromichi, Masukawa Atsuko, Asai Satomi
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The advent of tyrosine kinase inhibitors as molecular target therapy has resulted in a marked change in the laboratory process for the diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of chronic myelogenous leukemia. This includes defining the molecular typing of BCR-ABL1 to establish the diagnosis, a quantitative and/or high quality assay for minimal residual disease to evaluate the molecular response, and mutation analysis...
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