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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

The Status of PARP Inhibitors in Ovarian Cancer, Part 2



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The Status of Poly(Adenosine Diphosphate-Ribose) Polymerase (PARP) Inhibitors in Ovarian Cancer, Part 2: Extending the Scope Beyond Olaparib and BRCA1/2 Mutations
 Sept 2016

Abstract

Poly(adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors have shown clinical activity in epithelial ovarian cancer, leading both the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency to approve olaparib for tumors characterized by BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations. However, it is becoming increasingly evident that tumors that share molecular features with BRCA-mutant tumors-a concept known as BRCAness-also may exhibit defective homologous recombination DNA repair, and therefore will respond to PARP inhibition. A number of strategies have been proposed to identify BRCAness, including identifying defects in other genes that modulate homologous recombination and characterizing the mutational and transcriptional signatures of BRCAness. In addition to olaparib, a number of other PARP inhibitors are in clinical development. This article reviews the development of PARP inhibitors other than olaparib, and discusses the evidence for PARP inhibitors beyond BRCA1/2-mutant ovarian cancer.
 

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