Monitoring CML patients responding to treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors: review and recommendations for harmonizing current methodology for detecting BCR …

T Hughes, M Deininger, A Hochhaus, S Branford… - Blood, 2006 - ashpublications.org
The introduction in 1998 of imatinib mesylate (IM) revolutionized management of patients
with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and the second generation of tyrosine kinase …

Therapeutic implications of cancer stem cells

M Al-Hajj, MW Becker, M Wicha, I Weissman… - Current opinion in …, 2004 - Elsevier
Most cancers comprise a heterogenous population of cells with marked differences in their
proliferative potential as well as the ability to reconstitute the tumor upon transplantation …

[HTML][HTML] Frequency of major molecular responses to imatinib or interferon alfa plus cytarabine in newly diagnosed chronic myeloid leukemia

TP Hughes, J Kaeda, S Branford… - … England Journal of …, 2003 - Mass Medical Soc
Background In a randomized trial, 1106 patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in
chronic phase were assigned to imatinib or interferon alfa plus cytarabine as initial therapy …

Validation of the 2-ΔΔCt calculation as an alternate method of data analysis for quantitative PCR of BCR-ABL P210 transcripts

A Arocho, B Chen, M Ladanyi… - Diagnostic Molecular …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a clonal myeloproliferative disorder that is
characterized by the presence of a reciprocal translocation between chromosomes 9 and 22 …

Nanotechnology and cancer

JR Heath, ME Davis - Annu. Rev. Med., 2008 - annualreviews.org
The biological picture of cancer is rapidly advancing from models built from
phenomenological descriptions to network models derived from systems biology, which can …

DNA-encoded antibody libraries: a unified platform for multiplexed cell sorting and detection of genes and proteins

RC Bailey, GA Kwong, CG Radu… - Journal of the …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Whether for pathological examination or for fundamental biology studies, different classes of
biomaterials and biomolecules are each measured from a different region of a typically …

Rationale for the recommendations for harmonizing current methodology for detecting BCR-ABL transcripts in patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia

S Branford, NCP Cross, A Hochhaus, J Radich… - Leukemia, 2006 - nature.com
Molecular monitoring for patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) has become an
important practice in the era of imatinib therapy. For successful widespread introduction into …

Real-time quantitative PCR analysis can be used as a primary screen to identify patients with CML treated with imatinib who have BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations

S Branford, Z Rudzki, I Parkinson, A Grigg, K Taylor… - Blood, 2004 - ashpublications.org
Mutations within the BCR-ABL kinase domain in imatinib-treated chronic myeloid leukemia
(CML) are the main mechanism of acquired resistance. The early detection of mutations …

Chronic myeloid leukemia

JV Melo, TP Hughes, JF Apperley - ASH Education Program …, 2003 - ashpublications.org
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) was the first human malignancy to be associated with a
specific genetic lesion, the Philadelphia chromosome, harboring the BCR-ABL oncogene …

Impact of early dose intensity on cytogenetic and molecular responses in chronic-phase CML patients receiving 600 mg/day of imatinib as initial therapy

TP Hughes, S Branford, DL White… - Blood, The Journal …, 2008 - ashpublications.org
We conducted a trial in 103 patients with newly diagnosed chronic phase chronic myeloid
leukemia (CP-CML) using imatinib 600 mg/day, with dose escalation to 800 mg/day for …