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SUBMITTER: Pongmaneratanakul S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5464510 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Pongmaneratanakul Skolchart S Tanasanvimon Suebpong S Pengsuparp Thitima T Areepium Nutthada N
Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP 20170301 3
Purpose: Biliary tract cancer (BTC)is an aggressive disease with a poor prognosis. Most patients are diagnosed at an advanced stage for which curative surgery is not possible and gemcitabine-platinum chemotherapy is the treatment of choice for advanced cases. Several studies had focused on biomarkers to predict response from platinum drugs in lung cancer, but information is limited for BTC. In this study, two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the copper transporter (CTR1) and excision re ...[more]