“There are so many treatment options for cancer patients that the more information we have about matching the right therapy to the patient, the better off we all are,” Goldberg said. “Studies like this one give oncologists the tools needed to take better care of patients while avoiding tests and expenses that aren’t needed.”
The authors recommended that the FDA amend the product information for irinotecan to describe the association between irinotecan dose and risk of hematologic toxicity among patients with two UGT1A1*28 genes.
Source-Eurekalert
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