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Activity of trabectedin and the PARP inhibitor rucaparib in soft-tissue sarcomas
10 Apr 2017
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Trabectedin has recently been approved in the USA and in Europe for advanced soft-tissue sarcoma patients who have been treated with anthracycline-based chemotherapy without success. The mechanism of action of trabectedin depends on the status of both the nucleotide excision repair (NER) and homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair pathways. Trabectedin results in DNA double-strand breaks. We...
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