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Mechanisms of resistance to therapies targeting BRCA-mutant cancers.
Nature medicine - 1 Nov 2013
Lord Christopher J, Ashworth Alan
Abstract excerpt
Synthetic lethality provides a potential mechanistic framework for the therapeutic targeting of genetic and functional deficiencies in cancers and is now being explored widely. The first clinical exemplification of synthetic lethality in cancer has been the exploitation of inhibitors of poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) for the treatment of cancers with defects in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 tumor suppressor proteins,...
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