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Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) as target for the treatment of epithelial ovarian cancer: what to know.
Expert opinion on investigational drugs - 1 May 2021
Della Corte Luigi, Foreste Virginia, Di Filippo Claudia, Giampaolino Pierluigi, Bifulco Giuseppe
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INTRODUCTION: Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors are being developed in maintenance and recurrence treatment settings of epithelial ovarian cancers (EOCs) with BRCA 1-2 gene mutation. PARP inhibitors are the first example of drugs targeting the loss of a gene suppressor: they block base-excision repair in the cancer cells, which have lost homologous recombination due to BRCA-mutation, resulting in...
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