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Initial update: 6 February 2023

The Advocates for Universal DPD/DPYD Testing (AUDT) maintain a website, www.test4dpd.org, that provides current information on the advantages of testing and provides information concerning test capabilities and clinics/clinicians that are screening patients prior to treatment.

These videos and audio links may serve to provide you another way to understand the importance of this topic.

• The first video is of a presentation at the World Gastrointestinal Conference of the European Society of Medical Oncologists in 2020.  Dr. Julien Taieb-Hegp's presentation entitled: "Should DPD Deficiency Be Searched (sic) Before Starting 5FU?"

•   OncLive, YouTube

 o   Dr Samuel Klempner on Early Onset Toxicity

 o   Alice Beers, RN/BSN/OCN on Early Onset Toxicity 

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• • Advocates for Universal DPD/DPYD Deficiency Testing (AUDT)
  • DPD Deficiency Foundation
  • 5FU Toxicity: Grandma Jerri's Journey and Awareness

• NPR radio interview by Gordan Evans, Western Michigan University of Ken Surprenant

   

• Fight Colorectal Cancer's entry on DPD Deficiency and 5FU Toxicity