Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy (Jun 2020)

Pharmacogenomics for the efficacy of platinum-based chemotherapy: Old drugs, new integrated perspective

  • Chen-Xue Mao,
  • Min Li,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Hong-Hao Zhou,
  • Ji-Ye Yin,
  • Zhao-Qian Liu

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 126
p. 110057

Abstract

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Platinum-based chemotherapy remains the cornerstone of treatment for many malignancies. However, although therapeutic efficiency varies greatly among individuals, there is a lack of pharmacogenomic biomarkers that can be used in clinical settings to identify chemosensitive patients and allow stratification. With the development of high-throughput screening techniques and systems biology approaches, a growing body of evidence has shown that platinum resistance is a multifactorial, multi-dimensional, dynamic process incorporating genetic background, tumor evolution and gut microbes. This review critically summarizes potential pharmacogenomic biomarkers for predicting the efficacy of platinum drugs and provides a comprehensive, time-varying perspective that integrates multiple markers.

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