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In the afatinib group, the most common treatment-related adverse events were diarrhea, rash/acne, and stomatitis; in the chemotherapy group, they were nausea, fatigue, and decreased appetite. Patient-reported outcomes favored afatinib, with better control of cough, dyspnea, and pain, the investigators say.
Imatinib mesylate (a drug that blocks an abnormal kinase made by Philadelphia chromosome positive CML cells) effectively reduces the number of tumor cells in the chronic phase of CML to normal in nearly 90% of patients. An alternative is stem cell transplantation.