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Pharmacogenetics and the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia: how relevant clinically? An update.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Apr 2018
Ankathil Ravindran, Azlan Husin, Dzarr Abu Abdullah, Baba Abdul Aziz
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Despite the excellent efficacy and improved clinical responses obtained with imatinib mesylate (IM), development of resistance in a significant proportion of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients on IM therapy have emerged as a challenging problem in clinical practice. Resistance to imatinib can be due to heterogeneous array of factors involving BCR/ABL-dependent and BCR/ABL-independent pathways. Although...
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