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Towards Comprehension of the ABCB1/P-Glycoprotein Role in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia.
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) - 7 Jan 2018
Maia Raquel C, Vasconcelos Flavia C, Souza Paloma S, Rumjanek Vivian M
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Abstract: The introduction of imatinib (IM), a BCR-ABL1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), has represented a significant advance in the first-line treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). However, approximately 30% of patients need to discontinue IM due to resistance or intolerance to this drug. Both resistance and intolerance have also been observed in treatment with the second-generation TKIs-dasatinib,...
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