Inherited Gene Variations Tied to Treatment-Related Hearing Loss in Cancer Patients

Monday, February 9, 2015 - 13:20 in Health & Medicine

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have discovered inherited genetic variations that are associated with rapid hearing loss in young cancer patients treated with the drug cisplatin. The research appears in the current online issue of the scientific journal Nature Genetics.

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