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Pharmacogenetics of tamoxifen therapy in Asian populations: from genetic polymorphism to clinical outcomes.
European journal of clinical pharmacology - 1 Aug 2021
Wang Tingyu, Zhou Yitian, Cao Guosheng
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BACKGROUND: Compared with western countries, Asian breast cancer patients have unique pathological and biological characteristics. Most of them are premenopausal women with HR positive. Tamoxifen as the first-line drug for premenopausal women with HR+ is involved in multiple enzymes and transporters during metabolizing and transporting process. Variants that cause decreased or inactive gene products leading to...
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