Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on September 9, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(18):1332-1333; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn270
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Response: Re: Pharmacogenomic Variation of CYP2D6 and the Choice of Optimal Adjuvant Endocrine Therapy for Postmenopausal Breast Cancer: A Modeling Analysis
Affiliations of authors: Departments of Radiation Oncology (RSP) and Medical Oncology (HJB, EPW, JCW), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Correspondence to: Rinaa S. Punglia, MD, MPH, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115 (e-mail: rpunglia@partners.org).
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We thank Gurwitz and Newman for their interest in our findings. The authors make important points about the variation in CYP2D6 genotype distribution across ethnic populations. That very heterogeneity, as well as uncertainty about the effect of CYP2D6 genotype on outcomes of sequential treatment with tamoxifen
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