Systemic therapies for pancreatic cancer - the role of pharmacogenetics

Current Drug Targets

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 811-828

  Soo, Ross A ^a,b   Yong, Wei Peng ^a,b   Innocenti, Federico ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Pancreatic cancer; Pharmacogenetics

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ATM PROTEIN; CISPLATIN; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DEOXYCYTIDINE KINASE; DNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE BETA; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; EQUILIBRATIVE NUCLEOSIDE TRANSPORTER 1; ERLOTINIB; EXONUCLEASE; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; GEMCITABINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GIMERACIL PLUS OTERACIL POTASSIUM PLUS TEGAFUR; IRINOTECAN; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; OXALIPLATIN; PROTEIN P73; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; THYMIDINE PHOSPHORYLASE; THYMIDYLATE SYNTHASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XRCC1 PROTEIN; XRCC2 PROTEIN;

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; DRUG TARGETING; HUMAN; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEUTROPENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREAS CANCER; PHARMACOGENETICS; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PHARMACOGENETICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84860826582     PISSN: 13894501     EISSN: 18735592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138945012800564068     Document Type: Review

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