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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Meng Li
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-15372 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
BMC medical genomics 20090608
<h4>Background</h4>Cisplatin and carboplatin are the primary first-line therapies for the treatment of ovarian cancer. However, resistance to these platinum-based drugs occurs in the large majority of initially responsive tumors, resulting in fully chemoresistant, fatal disease. Although the precise mechanism(s) underlying the development of platinum resistance in late-stage ovarian cancer patients currently remains unknown, CpG-island (CGI) methylation, a phenomenon strongly associated with abe ...[more]