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Targeting PARP in Prostate Cancer: Novelty, Pitfalls, and Promise.
Oncology (Williston Park, N.Y.) - 1 May 2016
Palmbos Phillip L, Hussain Maha H
Abstract excerpt
Metastatic prostate cancer remains a highly lethal disease with no curative therapeutic options. A significant subset of patients with prostate cancer harbor either germline or somatic mutations in DNA repair enzyme genes such as BRCA1, BRCA2, or ATM. Emerging data suggest that drugs that target poly(adenosine diphosphate [ADP]-ribose) polymerase (PARP) enzymes may represent a novel and effective means of...
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