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Severe toxicities after irinotecan-based chemotherapy in a patient with lung cancer: a homozygote for the SLCO1B1*15 allele.
Therapeutic drug monitoring - 1 Oct 2007
Takane Hiroshi, Miyata Masanori, Burioka Naoto, Kurai Jun, Fukuoka Yasushi, Suyama Hisashi, Shigeoka Yasushi, Otsubo Kenji, Ieiri Ichiro, Shimizu Eiji
Abstract excerpt
Irinotecan is used widely in the treatment of several malignancies, but unpredictable severe toxicities such as myelosuppression and delayed-type diarrhea are sometimes experienced. Polymorphism of the UGT1A1 gene is one of the likely reasons for interindividual differences in irinotecan pharmaco...
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