Chronic myeloid leukemia: past, present, future

The discovery of the Philadelphia chromosome in 1960, and of theBCR-ABL oncogene in 1984, enabled the development in subsequentyears of a targeted therapy that revolutionized the treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia, thus changing its natural history. The use of imatinib resulted in a significant i...

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Main Authors: Patricia Weinschenker Bollmann, Auro del Giglio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein 2011-06-01
Series:Einstein (São Paulo)
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Online Access:http://apps.einstein.br/revista/arquivos/PDF/2022-Einstein_v9n2_236-243.pdf