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Daniel L Hertz1, James M Rae2.
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Tamoxifen may require metabolic activation to endoxifen for efficacy in treating hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. Dose escalation in patients with low endoxifen concentrations could enhance treatment efficacy. This approach is clinically feasible, and successfully increases endoxifen concentrations; however, it is unknown whether patients benefit from individualized tamoxifen dose escalation. Clin Cancer Res; 22(13); 3121-3. ©2016 AACRSee related article by Fox et al., p. 3164. ©2016 American Association for Cancer Research.Entities:
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27012810 PMCID: PMC4930675 DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-16-0370
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Cancer Res ISSN: 1078-0432 Impact factor: 12.531