Prospective assessment of CYP2D6 by genotyping, phenotyping and measurement of tamoxifen, PD 05-09 4-hydroxy-tamoxifen and endoxifen in breast cancer patients treated with tamoxifen.

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K. Zaman et al., « Prospective assessment of CYP2D6 by genotyping, phenotyping and measurement of tamoxifen, PD 05-09 4-hydroxy-tamoxifen and endoxifen in breast cancer patients treated with tamoxifen. », Serveur académique Lausannois, ID : 10670/1.jn2uuw


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Tamoxifen (tam) is a widely used endocrine therapy in the treatment of early and advanced stage breast cancer in women and men. It is a pro-drug having weak affinity with the estrogen receptor and needs to be converted to its main metabolite, endoxifen (endox), to have full anticancer activity. Cytochrome 2D6 (CYP2D6) plays a major role in the metabolism of tamoxifen to endoxifen. It is genetically highly polymorphic and its activity influences profoundly the synthesis of endoxifen and potentially the efficacy of tamoxifen treatment. Genotyping is currently the most widely used approach in studies and also in clinical practice to categorize patients as poor- (PM), intermediate- (IM), extensive- (EM) and ultra rapid-metabolizers (UM). Some clinicians already use genotyping in order to tailor the endocrine therapy of their patients. Owing to the large inter-individual variations in concentrations of the active moitey due to genetic and non-genetic influences renders the predictive value of the test uncertain for an individual patient. A significant number of patients classified as EM or IM by genotyping have indeed relatively low endoxifen levels similar to PMs1. This suggests that genotyping is probably not the opti ma l meth o d f or predi cti ng end oxif en l evels.

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