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Cytidine deaminase activity predicts clinical outcome of azacitidine in real-world MDS patients
2022-12-19
Abstract excerpt
Azacitidine (Vidaza®, Aza) is a mainstay for treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in patients unfit for induction chemotherapy and other high risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Only half of patients usually respond and almost all patients will relapse eventually. There are no predictive factors for response to Aza. Aza is detoxified in the liver by a single enzyme, cytidine deaminase (CDA). CDA is a ubiquitous...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 8763f9a5-896e-508b-b04d-84c049e80d36
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2370370/v1
