Letter to the Editor

Leukemia (2009) 23, 190–194; doi:10.1038/leu.2008.160; published online 3 July 2008

Prior treatment with the tyrosine kinase inhibitors dasatinib and nilotinib allows stem cell transplantation (SCT) in a less advanced disease phase and does not increase SCT Toxicity in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia and philadelphia positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia

A Shimoni1, M Leiba1, M Schleuning2, G Martineau3, M Renaud3, M Koren-Michowitz1, E Ribakovski1, P le Coutre4, R Arnold4, F Guilhot3 and A Nagler1

  1. 1Division of Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Hashomer, Israel
  2. 2Center for Bone Marrow Transplantation, Stiftung Deutsche Klinik für Diagnostik, Wiesbaden, Germany
  3. 3Department of Oncology, Hematology, Cell Therapy and CIC 802 INSERM, CHU La Miletrie, Poitiers, France
  4. 4Department of Hematology and Oncology,Charite-Universitatsmedizin, Berlin, Campus Virchow Klinikum Berlin, Germany

Correspondence: A Shimoni, E-mail: ashimoni@sheba.health.gov.il

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