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Beyond BCL-2: What drives venetoclax resistance in acute myeloid leukemia?
Cancer cell - 10 Aug 2026
Skwarska Anna, Konopleva Marina
Abstract excerpt
The BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax has transformed outcomes for older or frail patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and its resistance mechanisms are becoming better defined, including compensatory and lineage-associated switches toward MCL-1 or BCL-xL dependence, oncogenic signaling activation, blast phenotype, and differentiation stage. Additional putative mechanisms-such as emerging BAX mutations,...
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