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Impact of ABCB1 Gene Polymorphisms and Smoking on the Susceptibility Risk of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and Cytogenetic Response.
Iranian biomedical journal - 1 Jan 2021
Mohammadi Fatemeh, Shafiei Mohammad, Assad Dlnya, Rostami Golale, Hamid Mohammad, Foroughmand Ali Mohammad
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Background: Imatinib mesylate (IM), a strong and selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor, has been approved as the front line of treatment in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients. In spite of satisfactory results of imatinib in the treatment of patients with CML, patients with treatment failure or suboptimal response developed resistance that might be because of pharmacogenetic variants. This study attempted to...
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