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'BRCAness' and its implications for platinum action in gynecologic cancer.
Anticancer research - 1 Feb 2014
Muggia Franco, Safra Tamar
Abstract excerpt
Gynecological carcinomas are major therapeutic targets of platinum-containing regimens. They may be particularly susceptible to these agents if their origins are related to hereditary breast cancer (BRCA) mutations; this implicates defective DNA repair secondary to inherited alterations in BRCA function. The concept of 'BRCAness' was introduced by Ashworth and colleagues in order to identify phenotypic changes in...
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