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Imatinib interim therapy between chemotherapeutic cycles and in vivo purging prior to autologous stem cell transplantation, followed by maintenance therapy is a feasible treatment strategy in Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia

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Shin, HJ., Chung, J. & Cho, G. Imatinib interim therapy between chemotherapeutic cycles and in vivo purging prior to autologous stem cell transplantation, followed by maintenance therapy is a feasible treatment strategy in Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Bone Marrow Transplant 36, 917–918 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bmt.1705144

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