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PARP inhibitors: Clinical utility and possibilities of overcoming resistance
14 Oct 2017
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PARP inhibitors represent a major breakthrough in ovarian cancer care. Almost half of all ovarian cancers have deficiencies in the homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair pathway, namely BRCA1/2 mutations. Given the limited therapeutic options for recurrent ovarian cancer patients there has been a significant effort to develop novel therapies to exploit DNA repair deficiencies. In 2005 and 2006, inhibiting PARP...
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