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PARP inhibitors for BRCA1/2-mutated and sporadic ovarian cancer: current practice and future directions.
British journal of cancer - 8 Nov 2016
Konecny G E, Kristeleit R S
Abstract excerpt
Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors cause targeted tumour cell death in homologous recombination (HR)-deficient cancers, including BRCA-mutated tumours, by exploiting synthetic lethality. PARP inhibitors are being evaluated in late-stage clinical trials of ovarian cancer (OC). Recently, olaparib was the first PARP inhibitor approved in the European Union and United States for the treatment of advanced...
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