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Study finds a cause of resistance to revumenib in acute leukemia

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A clinical study testing revumenib, a novel targeted treatment, found 40% of patients with acute leukemia had complete response and showed how the cancer cells resist the drug, investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and other research centers report in a new pair of studies in the journal Nature.

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