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Single nucleotide polymorphisms in nucleotide excision repair genes, cancer treatment, and head and neck cancer survival.
Cancer causes & control : CCC - 1 Apr 2014
Wyss Annah B, Weissler Mark C, Avery Christy L, Herring Amy H, Bensen Jeannette T, Barnholtz-Sloan Jill S, Funkhouser William K, Olshan Andrew F
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PURPOSE: Head and neck cancers (HNC) are commonly treated with radiation and platinum-based chemotherapy, which produce bulky DNA adducts to eradicate cancerous cells. Because nucleotide excision repair (NER) enzymes remove adducts, variants in NER genes may be associated with survival among HNC cases both independently and jointly with treatment. METHODS: Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate...
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