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encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine




Disease chronic myelocytic leukemia
Comorbidity C0879615|stromal tumor
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PubMedID- 24451733 Positron emission tomography in patients with gi stromal tumors or genotyping of c-kit in chronic myelogenous leukemia cells can guide the use of imatinib, these scenarios represent a minority of patients.
PubMedID- 24348666 It was initially proposed that the t790m mutation might prevent the proper binding of tyrosine kinase inhibitors via steric hindrance, similar to the corresponding gatekeeper mutations in bcr-abl (t315i) and kit (t670i) that confer resistance to imatinib (gleevec) in chronic myelogenous leukemia and in patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

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