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Pharmacogenetics of Capecitabine in Advanced Breast Cancer Patients
15 Sept 2006
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PURPOSE: Germinal gene polymorphisms can explain a part of the interpatient pharmacodynamic variability of anticancer drugs, particularly fluoropyrimidines. Genes for which polymorphisms may potentially influence pharmacodynamics of fluoropyrimidines, including capecitabine, are thymidylate synthase (TS), methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), and dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD). EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN:...
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