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Pharmacogenomics toward personalized tamoxifen therapy for breast cancer.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Jan 2015
Zembutsu Hitoshi
Abstract excerpt
Tamoxifen has been used not only for the treatment or prevention of recurrence in patients with estrogen receptor positive breast cancers but also for recurrent breast cancer. Because CYP2D6 is known to be an important enzyme responsible for the generation of the potent tamoxifen metabolite, 'endoxifen', lots of studies reported that genetic variation which reduced its enzyme activity were associated with poor...
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