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What adjustments, if any, do you make to chemotherapy regimens for patients with chromosomal breakage disorders who develop malignancy?

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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Patients with known DNA repair disorders (such as Ataxia-Telangiectasia, Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome) are at high risk of developing toxicity from standard chemotherapy approaches for the treatment of their leukemia/lymphoma, which is the most common malignancy they are predisposed to.

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