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SUBMITTER: Ueno H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2661788 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ueno H H Kaniwa N N Okusaka T T Ikeda M M Morizane C C Kondo S S Sugiyama E E Kim S R SR Hasegawa R R Saito Y Y Yoshida T T Saijo N N Sawada J J
British journal of cancer 20090301 6
Among 242 Japanese pancreatic cancer patients, three patients (1.2%) encountered life-threatening toxicities, including myelosuppression, after gemcitabine-based chemotherapies. Two of them carried homozygous CDA*3 (CDA208G>A [Ala70Thr]), and showed extremely low plasma cytidine deaminase activity and gemcitabine clearance. Our results suggest that homozygous *3 is a major factor causing gemcitabine-mediated severe adverse reactions among the Japanese population. ...[more]