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MDR1 expression predicts outcome of Ph+ chronic phase CML patients on second-line nilotinib therapy after imatinib failure.
Leukemia - 1 Jul 2014
Agrawal M, Hanfstein B, Erben P, Wolf D, Ernst T, Fabarius A, Saussele S, Purkayastha D, Woodman R C, Hofmann W-K, Hehlmann R, Hochhaus A, Müller M C
Abstract excerpt
In the face of competing tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), identification of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients expecting favorable response to second-line treatment is warranted. At the time of imatinib resistance, the investigation of multidrug-resistance protein 1 (MDR1) and BCR-ABL yielded the following results: (i) Patients with high MDR1 transcript levels showed superior response at 48 months as...
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