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The contribution of deleterious DPYD gene sequence variants to fluoropyrimidine toxicity in British cancer patients.
Cancer chemotherapy and pharmacology - 1 Jan 2010
Loganayagam Aathavan, Arenas-Hernandez Monica, Fairbanks Lynette, Ross Paul, Sanderson Jeremy D, Marinaki Anthony M
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PURPOSE: The fluoropyrimidines have been extensively used for almost five decade worldwide for the treatment of solid cancers. However, severe toxicity is a major clinical problem and has been reported in association with deleterious sequence variants in dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) codi...
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