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Cancer chemotherapy and somatic cell mutation.
Mutation research - 31 Oct 2000
Kubota M, Lin Y W, Hamahata K, Sawada M, Koishi S, Hirota H, Wakazono Y
Abstract excerpt
The occurrence of a second neoplasm is one of the major obstacles in cancer chemotherapy. The elucidation of the genotoxic effects induced by anti-cancer drugs is considered to be helpful in identifying the degree of cancer risk. Numerous investigations on cancer patients after chemotherapy have demonstrated: (i) an increase in the in vivo somatic cell mutant frequency (Mf) at three genetic loci, including...
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