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Homologous Recombination Deficiency: Exploiting the Fundamental Vulnerability of Ovarian Cancer.
Cancer discovery - 1 Nov 2015
Konstantinopoulos Panagiotis A, Ceccaldi Raphael, Shapiro Geoffrey I, D'Andrea Alan D
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UNLABELLED: Approximately 50% of epithelial ovarian cancers (EOC) exhibit defective DNA repair via homologous recombination (HR) due to genetic and epigenetic alterations of HR pathway genes. Defective HR is an important therapeutic target in EOC as exemplified by the efficacy of platinum analogues in this disease, as well as the advent of PARP inhibitors, which exhibit synthetic lethality when applied to...
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