NCCN task force report: Tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy selection in the management of patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia

JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Volumn 9, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages

  O'Brien, Susan ^a   Berman, Ellin ^a   Moore, Joseph O ^a   Pinilla Ibarz, Javier ^a   Radich, Jerald P ^a   Shami, Paul J ^a   Smith, B Douglas ^a   Snyder, David S ^a   Sundar, Hema M ^a   Talpaz, Moshe ^a   Wetzler, Meir ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Accelerated phase; Allogeneic HSCT; BCR ABL; Blast phase; Chronic myelogenous leukemia; CML; Dasatinib; Disease progression; High dose imatinib; Imatinib; Mutations; Nilotinib; Suboptimal response; TKI; Tyrosine kinase inhibitor

Indexed keywords

BCR ABL PROTEIN; DASATINIB; IMATINIB; NILOTINIB; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BONE METABOLISM; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CYTOGENETICS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG TOLERANCE; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FATIGUE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOPHOSPHATEMIA; MINERAL METABOLISM; MUSCLE CRAMP; MUSCLE SPASM; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PLEURA EFFUSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RASH; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG RESISTANCE; ENZYMOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOGENOUS, CHRONIC, BCR-ABL POSITIVE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952791065     PISSN: 15401405     EISSN: 15401413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2011.0125     Document Type: Article

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