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Niraparib for the treatment of ovarian cancer.
Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy - 1 Apr 2017
Kanjanapan Yada, Lheureux Stephanie, Oza Amit M
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INTRODUCTION: Poly(adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors are being developed in maintenance and recurrence treatment settings in ovarian cancer. They inhibit single-stranded DNA repair, inducing synthetic lethality in cells with underlying homologous recombination deficiency (HRD). Marked responses are seen in ovarian cancers with breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) or 2 (BRCA2) mutation, although...
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