Cancer Therapy Risk
Cancer Therapy Risk In an e-mail message to members of the XP-Connection list, Dr. Busch warns of a risk of cancer therapy for persons with XP. XP patients are very sensitive to some cancer therapy drugs such as cisplatin, which damage DNA and are repaired with the same pathway as UV damage to DNA. What would be normally used cancer chemotherapy doses for most people could be lethal for an XP patient. If an XP patient ever gets a cancer requiring systemic cancer chemotherapy,
