title: Novel targets for treatment of adult acute lymphocytic leukemia.
abstract: The treatment of acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) results in long-term disease-free survival in only 30-40% of adults. Conventional chemotherapy is toxic and woefully ineffective. Therefore, novel agents are being investigated. Among these agents are monoclonal antibodies such as rituximab, epratuzumab, and alemtuzumab and targeted therapies such as tyrosine kinase inhibitors, mTOR inhibitors, and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MEK) inhibitors. This article discusses such novel targets for the treatment of ALL.
authors.affiliation: Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA. Margaret.kasner@jefferson.edu
authors.forename: Margaret T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Kasner
mesh_terms: D000074323:Alemtuzumab; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology / Q000627:therapeutic use; D061067:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized; D058846:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000912:Antibodies, Neoplasm / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors; D054198:Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma / Q000188:drug therapy*; D047428:Protein Kinase Inhibitors / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000069283:Rituximab; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D061067:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized; D058846:Antibodies, Monoclonal, Murine-Derived; D000912:Antibodies, Neoplasm; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D047428:Protein Kinase Inhibitors; C448700:epratuzumab; D000074323:Alemtuzumab; D000069283:Rituximab; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases