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Pharmacogenetic study of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated with second-line pemetrexed or pemetrexed-carboplatin.
Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 1 Oct 2012
Tiseo Marcello, Giovannetti Elisa, Tibaldi Carmelo, Camerini Andrea, Di Costanzo Francesco, Barbieri Fausto, Burgers Jacobus A, Vincent Andrew, Peters Godefridus J, Smit Egbert F, Ardizzoni Andrea
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PURPOSE: To correlate candidate polymorphisms affecting pemetrexed and carboplatin activity with clinical outcome of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treated in second-line with pemetrexed or pemetrexed plus carboplatin. METHODS: Functional polymorphisms in thymidylate synthase (TS), reduced folate carrier (RFC), gamma-glutamyl hydrolase (GGH), methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR)...
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