Hairy cell leukemia - New genes, new targets

Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 184-195

  Kreitman, Robert J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

BL22; BRAF; CD22; Dabrafenib; HCL variant; IGHV4 34; Immunotoxin; MAPK; Melanoma; Moxetumomab pasudotox; Purine analog; Recombinant immunotoxin; Trametinib; V600E; Vemurafenib

Indexed keywords

ALEMTUZUMAB; ALPHA INTERFERON; B RAF KINASE; CD22 ANTIGEN; CLADRIBINE; DABRAFENIB; DACARBAZINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MOXETUMOMAB PASUDOTOX; PENTOSTATIN; RITUXIMAB; SELUMETINIB; TRAMETINIB; VEMURAFENIB; BACTERIAL TOXIN; EXOTOXIN; IMMUNOTOXIN; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; SULFONAMIDE; THYMIDINE KINASE;

ANAPLASTIC THYROID CANCER; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BILIARY TRACT CANCER; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHORIORETINOPATHY; COLORECTAL CANCER; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EDEMA; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GERM CELL TUMOR; GLIOMA; HAIRY CELL LEUKEMIA; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMOLYTIC UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; HYPERTENSION; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; HYPOTENSION; LARGE CELL LYMPHOMA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MALIGNANT HISTIOCYTOSIS; MELANOMA; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; PROTEINURIA; RASH; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETREATMENT; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; THYROID CARCINOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LEUKEMIA, HAIRY CELL; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIAL TOXINS; EXOTOXINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOTOXINS; INDOLES; LEUKEMIA, HAIRY CELL; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; SULFONAMIDES; THYMIDINE KINASE;

EID: 84883873669     PISSN: 15588211     EISSN: 1558822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11899-013-0167-0     Document Type: Article

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