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SUBMITTER: Gambacorti-Passerini C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4173127 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gambacorti-Passerini Carlo C Brümmendorf Tim H TH Kim Dong-Wook DW Turkina Anna G AG Masszi Tamas T Masszi Tamas T Assouline Sarit S Durrant Simon S Kantarjian Hagop M HM Khoury H Jean HJ Zaritskey Andrey A Shen Zhi-Xiang ZX Jin Jie J Vellenga Edo E Pasquini Ricardo R Mathews Vikram V Cervantes Francisco F Besson Nadine N Turnbull Kathleen K Leip Eric E Kelly Virginia V Cortes Jorge E JE
American journal of hematology 20140428 7
Bosutinib is an orally active, dual Src/Abl tyrosine kinase inhibitor for treatment of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) following resistance/intolerance to prior therapy. Here, we report the data from the 2-year follow-up of a phase 1/2 open-label study evaluating the efficacy and safety of bosutinib as second-line therapy in 288 patients with chronic phase CML resistant (n = 200) or intolerant (n = 88) to imatinib. The cumulative response rates to bosutinib were as follows: 85% achieved/maintaine ...[more]