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Pharmacogenetics of CYP2D6 and tamoxifen therapy: Light at the end of the tunnel?
Pharmacological research - 1 May 2016
Del Re M, Citi V, Crucitta S, Rofi E, Belcari F, van Schaik R H, Danesi R
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The clinical usefulness of assessing the enzymatic activity of CYPD6 in patients taking tamoxifen had been longly debated. In favour of preemptive evaluation of phenotypic profile of patients is the strong pharmacologic rationale, being that the formation of endoxifen, the major and clinically most important metabolite of tamoxifen, is largely dependent on the activity of CYP2D6. This enzyme is highly polymorphic...
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