Second-Line TKIs Offer Expanded Treatment Options For Newly Diagnosed Patients With CML

Second generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapies approved for first-line therapy of chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) offer newly diagnosed patients an expanded range of treatment options, according to Susan O'Brien, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and chair of the NCCN Guidelines? for CML. Dr. O'Brien emphasized the considerable advances made in the treatment of CML during her presentation of the updated NCCN Guidelines for CML at the NCCN 16th Annual Conference on March 11, 2011...

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