Protective effect of the Japanese traditional medicine juzentaihoto on myelosuppression induced by the anticancer drug TS-1 and identification of a potential biomarker of this effect

BACKGROUND: TS-1 is an oral anticancer drug containing a 5-fluorouracil derivative (Tegafur) that is widely used in Japan for the treatment of cancer, especially gastrointestinal tumors. Frequently, however, TS-1 therapy has to be discontinued because of leukopenia. If it were possible to predict th...

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Autores principales: Ogawa, Kazuo, Omatsu, Tatsushi, Matsumoto, Chinami, Tsuchiya, Naoko, Yamamoto, Masahiro, Naito, Yuji, Yoshikawa, Toshikazu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3478231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22876791
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-12-118

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