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Homozygous CDA*3 is a major cause of life-threatening toxicities in gemcitabine-treated Japanese cancer patients.
British journal of cancer - 24 Mar 2009
Ueno H, Kaniwa N, Okusaka T, Ikeda M, Morizane C, Kondo S, Sugiyama E, Kim S R, Hasegawa R, Saito Y, Yoshida T, Saijo N, Sawada J
Abstract excerpt
Among 242 Japanese pancreatic cancer patients, three patients (1.2%) encountered life-threatening toxicities, including myelosuppression, after gemcitabine-based chemotherapies. Two of them carried homozygous CDA*3 (CDA208G>A [Ala70Thr]), and showed extremely low plasma cytidine deaminase activity and gemcitabine clearance. Our results suggest that homozygous *3 is a major factor causing gemcitabine-mediated...
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