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Part 3. Imatinib for Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) (continued)


Included Articles

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7. Bacik J, Mazumdar M, Murphy B, et al. The functional assessment of cancer therapy-BRM (FACT-BRM): A new tool for the assessment of quality of life in patients treated with biologic response modifiers. Quality of Life Research 2004;13(1):137-54.

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10. Berger U, Hochhaus A, Reiter A, et al. Feasibility of imatinib combination therapies in a randomized trial for chronic myeloid leukemia: The German CML-Study IV-Pilot Phase. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #24.

11. Bhatia R., Holtz M., Niu N., et al. Persistence of malignant hematopoietic progenitors in chronic myelogenous leukemia patients in complete cytogenetic remission following imatinib mesylate treatment. Blood 2003;101(12):4701-7.

12. Bose S, Deininger MW, Gora-Tybor J, et al. The presence of typical and atypical BCR-ABL fusion genes in leukocytes of normal individuals: Biologic significance and implications for the assessment of minimal residual disease. Blood 92. 1998.

13. Branford S, Rudzki Z, Grigg A, et al. The frequency of detection of BCR-ABL mutations in imatinib treated patients with chronic phase CML who attain a complete cytogenetic response (CCR) does not diminish with increasing duration of ccr but the associated loss of response is usually gradual. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #271.

14. Branford S, Rudzki Z, Grigg A, et al. BCR-ABL levels continue to decrease up to 42 months after commencement of standard dose imatinib in patients with newly diagnosed chronic phase CML who achieve a major molecular response. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #274.

15. Branford S, Rudzki Z, Harper A, et al. Imatinib produces significantly superior molecular responses compared to interferon alfa plus cytarabine in patients with newly diagnosed chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic phase. Leukemia 2003;17(12):2401-9.

16. Branford S, Rudzki Z, Parkinson I, et al. Real-time quantitative PCR analysis can be used as a primary screen to identify patients with CMLtreated with imatinib who have BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations. Blood 2004;104(9):2926-32.

17. Braziel RM, Launder TM, Druker BJ, et al. Hematopathologic and cytogenetic findings in imatinib mesylate-treated chronic myelogenous leukemia patients: 14 months' experience. Blood 2002;100(2):435-41.

18. Ceglarek BB, Konopka LJ, Sikorska A, et al. Gleevec Therapy in Advanced Phases of the CML-Polish Study Report. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #4701.

19. Cervantes F, Hernandez-Boluda JC, Odriozola J, et al. Imatinib mesylate (STI571) treatment in patients with chronic-phase chronic myelogenous leukaemia previously submitted to autologous stem cell transplantation. British Journal of Haematology 2003;120(3):500-4.

20. Cohen MH, Johnson JR, Pazdur R. U.S. Food and Drug Administration Drug Approval Summary: Conversion of Imatinib Mesylate (STI571; Gleevec) Tablets from Accelerated Approval to Full Approval. Clinical Cancer Research 2005;11:12-9.

21. Cohen MH, Williams G, Johnson JR, et al. Approval summary for imatinib mesylate capsules in the treatment of chronic myelogenous leukemia. Clinical Cancer Research 2002;8(5):935-42.

22. Conneally E, Carroll P, Neat M, et al. Imatinib mesylate treatment of patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia relapsing following allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #4659.

23. Corm S, Nicollini F, Borie D, et al. Mutation status of imatinib mesylate-resistants cml patients and clinical outcomes: A French multicenter retrospective study for the fiLMC Group. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #275.

24. Cornelissen JJ, Valk P, Verhoef GEG, et al. High rates of molecular response and low incidence of mutations in patients treated with newly diagnosed chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) treated with a dose-escalated combination of imatinib and cytarabin. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #19.

25. Corsetti MT, Beltrami G, Carella AM. Imatinib achieves high rates of complete citogenetic remission (CCR) in CML patients relapsed after autografting and IFN-a Therapy. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #4656.

26. Cortes J, Giles F, O'Brien S, et al. Result of high-dose imatinib mesylate in patients with Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia after failure of interferon-alpha. Blood 2003;102(1):83-6.

27. Cortes J, Giles F, Salvado A, et al. High dose (HD) imatinib in patients with previously untreated chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in early chronic phase (CP): preliminary results of a multicenter community based trial. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2005;20(162):abstract 6518.

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29. Cortes J, Talpaz M, Giles F, et al. Prognostic significance of cytogenetic clonal evolution in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia on imatinib mesylate therapy. Blood 2003;101(10):3794-800.

30. Cortes J, Talpaz M, O'Brien S, et al. Survival advantage for patients (pts) with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in accelerated phase (AP) treated with imatinib. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #1006.

31. Cortes J, Talpaz M, O'Brien S, et al. High-dose imatinib mesylate treatment in patients (pts) with previously untreated early chronic phase (CP) chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #999.

32. Cortes J, Talpaz M, O'Brien S, et al. Clinical significance of molecular monitoring in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in chronic phase (CP) with imatinib therapy. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #272.

33. Crossman LC, Druker BJ, Deininger MW. hOCT 1 and resistance to imatinib. Blood 2005;106(3):1133-4.

34. Crossman LC, Mori M, Hsieh Y, et al. In chronic myeloid leukemia white cells from cytogenetic responders and non-responders to imatinib have very similar gene expression signatures. Haematologica 2005;90:459-64.

35. Deininger MW, Willis S, Lange T, et al. Detection of imatinib-resistant BCR-ABL mutants in drug-naïve patients: correlation with disease phase and clonal evolution but not with response to treatment. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #273.

36. Deshmukh CD, Saikia T, Bakshi AV, et al. Imatinib mesylate in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML): A single institution experience of 174 patients. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2004;22(14S):Abstract #6710.

37. Druker BJ. Taking aim at Ewing's sarcoma: is KIT a target and will imatinib work? Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2002;94(22):1660-1.

38. Druker BJ, Sawyers CL, Kantarjian H, et al. Activity of a specific inhibitor of the BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase in the blast crisis of chronic myeloid leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia with the Philadelphia chromosome. New England Journal of Medicine 2001;344(14):1038-42.

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40. Drummond A, Micallef-Eynaud P, Douglas WS, et al. A spectrum of skin reactions caused by the tyrosine kinase inhibitor imatinib mesylate (STI 571, Glivec). British Journal of Haematology 2003;120(5):911-3.

41. El-Zimaity MM, Kantarjian H, Talpaz M, et al. Results of imatinib mesylate therapy in chronic myelogenous leukaemia with variant Philadelphia chromosome. British Journal of Haematology 2004;125(2):187-95.

42. Elliot VJ, Marin D, Horncastle D, et al. Total number of CD34 + cells per ten high power fields in bone marrow trephines of patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia correlates with probability of complete cytogenetic response during the first year of treatment with imatinib. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #4664.

43. Faderl S, Talpaz M, Estrov Z, et al. Chronic Myelogenous leukemia: biology and therapy. Annals of Internal Medicine 1999;131(3):207-19.

44. Fischer T, Reifenrath C, Hess GR, et al. Safety and efficacy of STI-571 (imatinib mesylate) in patients with bcr/abl-positive chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) after autologous peripheral Blood stem cell transplantation (PBSCT). Leukemia 2002;16(7):1220-8.

45. Frater JL, Tallman MS, Variakojis D, et al. Chronic myeloid leukemia following therapy with imatinib mesylate (Gleevec). Bone marrow histopathology and correlation with genetic status. American Journal of Clinical Pathology 2003;119(6):833-41.

46. Fruehauf, Topaly, Buss EC, et al. A multicenter phase I/II trial of the combination of imatinib mesylate with mitoxantrone/etoposide and cytarabine in patients with CML in myeloid blast crisis: a trend to a longer survival in patients receiving more aggressive treatment schedules. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #2929.

47. Gardembas M, Rousselot P, Tulliez M, et al. Results of a prospective phase 2 study combining imatinib mesylate and cytarabine for the treatment of Philadelphia-positive patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia in chronic phase. Blood 2003;102(13):4298-305.

48. George S, Horvath L, Molokie R, et al. Response to therapy with imatinib mesylate in patients with CML is poor in non-caucasian patients. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #2937.

49. Goldman J. M. , Melo J. V. Mechanisms of disease - Chronic myeloid leukemia - Advances in biology and new approaches to treatment. New England Journal of Medicine 2003;349(15):1451-64.

50. Gorre ME, Skaggs BJ, Sawyers CL. Imatinib-resistant BCR-ABL mutations alter oncogenic potency, kinase activity and substrate selection. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #556.

51. Gratwohl A, Hermans J. Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for chronic myeloid leukemia. Working Party Chronic Leukemia of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT). Bone Marrow Transplantation 17 (Suppl 3):S7-9.

52. Guilhot F. Sustained durability of responses plus high rates of cytogenetic responses result in long-term benefit for newly diagnosed chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CML-CP) treated with imatinib (IM) therapy: update from the IRIS study. Blood 2004;104(11):Abstract #21.

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54. Hahn EA, Glendenning GA. Quality of life on imatinib. Seminars in Hematology 2003;40(2 Suppl 2):31-6.

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65. Huntly B, Guilhot F, Reid A, et al. Imatinib improves but may not fully reverse the poor prognosis of patients with CML with derivative chromosome 9 deletions. Blood 2003;102(6):2205-12.

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