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Clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics of tamoxifen and endoxifen
22 Apr 2019
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Introduction: Tamoxifen dominates the anti-estrogenic therapy in the early and metastatic breast cancer setting. Tamoxifen has a complex metabolism, being mainly metabolized by CYP2D6 into its 30–100 times more potent metabolite, endoxifen. Recently, a phase I study in which endoxifen as an orally z-endoxifen hydrochloride has been successfully evaluated.Areas covered: the principal pharmacogenetic and...
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