Background: Treatment for Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia (CML) is mainly imatinib mesylate (IM) from original-brand, Glivec? or generic-type homologs, Imatib?. Materials and Methods: A collection of 149 CML patients was tr...
AIM: To examine the impact of imatinib mesylate (Glivec) on patient survival and response and its safety, and the correlation of the response rate with the kit gene mutation status. METHODS: Thirty-three of 74 (4...
AIM: To estimate whether S-TI571 inhibits the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) cells. METHODS: We used GIST cell line, GIST-T1. It has a hetero...