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Overdosing on Chemo: A Common Gene Test Could Save Hundreds of Lives Each Year

Patients with variants in the DPYD gene have an increased risk of severe toxicity and death from fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy, but many US cancer patients are not being tested for DPYD variants. Fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy kills more than 275,000 US cancer patients each year, but routine genetic testing could change that. ....

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