Nature Medicine
- 12, 881 - 882 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nm0806-881
Targeted cancer therapeutics: the heartbreak of success
Douglas L Mann
The author is in the Winters Center for Heart Failure Research, Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. dmann@bcm.tmc.edu
kanjiTyrosine kinase inhibitors, widely hailed for their success as treatments for cancer, are also plagued by the issue of cardiotoxic side effects. The mechanism behind the heart damage now comes to light for one such inhibitor, imatinib mesylate, also known as Gleevec (pages 908–916).
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