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Pre-clinical Evaluation of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors for Treatment of Acute Leukemia
Published on: September 18, 2013
Significant weight gain in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia after imatinib therapy
Elvis Aduwa1, Richard Szydlo, David Marin
1Department of Haematology, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
Blood
|December 18, 2012
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