Is Imatinib Maintenance Required for Patients with Relapse Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Post-Transplantation Obtaining CMR? A Pilot Retrospective Investigation.

Imatinib can induce complete molecular remission (CMR) in relapse chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, but it is indefinite whether imatinib is required to maintain CMR. We retrospectively reviewed 37 relapse CML post-transplants treated with i...

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Main Authors: Hua Jin, Yiying Xiong, Jing Sun, Yu Zhang, Fen Huang, Hongsheng Zhou, Zhiping Fan, Dan Xu, Yongqiang Wei, Min Dai, Ru Feng, Qifa Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3688864?pdf=render