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Germline genetic testing to predict drug response and toxicity in oncology--reality or fiction?
Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore - 1 Aug 2011
Soh Thomas I P, Yong Wei Peng
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In addition to 6-mercaptopurine, 5-fluorouracil and irinotecan, the United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) has recently recommended label change for tamoxifen, to include pharmacogenetic information on treatment outcome. With the increasing availability of pharmacogenetic testing, on germline as well as somatic mutations, oncologists are now able to identify individuals at risk of severe treatment...
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