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[PARP inhibitors and breast cancer: update and perspectives].
Bulletin du cancer - 1 Apr 2012
Gonçalves Anthony
Abstract excerpt
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) family has become a promising therapeutic target in various malignancies including breast cancer. When homologous recombination repair is deficient, as it is observed in BRCA1/2-mutated tumor models, inhibition of PARP was shown to induce massive and selective tumor cell death (the so-called "synthetic lethality"). In breast cancer, PARP inhibitors have been developed as...
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