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Tumor Growth Inhibition by Olaparib in <i>BRCA2</i> Germline-Mutated Patient-Derived Ovarian Cancer Tissue Xenografts
19 Nov 2010
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PURPOSE: Most patients with ovarian carcinomas succumb to their disease and there is a critical need for improved therapeutic approaches. Carcinomas arising in BRCA mutation carriers display defective DNA double-strand break repair that can be therapeutically exploited by inhibition of PARP-1, a key enzyme in the repair of DNA single-strand breaks, creating synthetic lethality in tumor cells. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN:...
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