The disease outcome of the patients with mutations in late-CP is listed in Table 3, and Figure 1B tracks the emergence of mutations….Disease outcome of the 14 patients in late-CP with mutations...The 13 patients with acquired resistance included 5 with transformation to blast phase, 6 to AP, and 2 with a loss of an MCR.

CONTRADICTING EVIDENCE: In our study, we investigated the activity of bosutinib, dasatinib, imatinib, and nilotinib against a panel of 18 mutated forms of BCR/ABL associated with imatinib resistance in CML and Ph+ acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients. The results are listed in Figure 1 (Table 1 lists all the actual values for the relative concentration that inhibits 50%).

Overall, these data indicate that the ENU-based assay faithfully reproduces the spectrum of mutations seen in patients with clinical resistance to imatinib mesylate...Spectrum and frequency of BCR-ABL kinase domain mutations recovered in the presence of imatinib mesylate, nilotinib, and dasatinib...Although both dasatinib and nilotinib are much more potent than imatinib mesylate and have activity against most kinase domain mutants, it is conceivable that their specific modes of binding to Abl may lead to new “vulnerable” sites that could confer drug resistance.