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SUBMITTER: Wu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4784459 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wu Jingjing J Zhang Mingzhi M Liu Delong D
Journal of hematology & oncology 20160309
More and more targeted agents become available for B cell malignancies with increasing precision and potency. The first-in-class Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor, ibrutinib, has been in clinical use for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, mantle cell lymphoma, and Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia. More selective BTK inhibitors (ACP-196, ONO/GS-4059, BGB-3111, CC-292) are being explored. Acalabrutinib (ACP-196) is a novel irreversible second-generation BTK inhibitor that was sho ...[more]