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Pharmacogenetics of Irinotecan
1 May 2003
Abstract excerpt
Pharmacogenetics focuses on intersubjects variation in therapeutic drug effects and toxicity depending on genetic polymorphisms. This is particularly interesting in oncology since anticancer drugs usually have a narrow margin of safety. Irinotecan [7-ethyl-10-[4-(1-piperidino)-1-piperidino]carbonyloxycamptothecin] is used in cancer chemotherapy as a topoisomerase I inhibitor and it is characterised by a sometimes...
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