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The Underrated Risks of Tamoxifen Drug Interactions

Tamoxifen is a prodrug, and most of the therapeutic effect in treating breast cancer stems from its metabolite, endoxifen. Since cytochrome P450 (CYP) 2D6 is the most important enzyme in the production of endoxifen, drugs that inhibit CYP2D6 would be expected to reduce tamoxifen efficacy. In additio...

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Autor principal: Hansten, Philip D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6133076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29637493
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13318-018-0475-9