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PARP inhibitors in ovarian cancer.
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology - 1 Apr 2016
Ledermann J A
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Slow progress in improving the outcome of ovarian cancer with chemotherapy over the last decade has stimulated research into molecularly targeted therapy. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors target DNA repair and are specifically active in cells that have impaired repair of DNA by the homologous recombination (HR) pathway. Cells with mutated BRCA function have HR deficiency (HRD), which is...
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