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SUBMITTER: Jang A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7700539 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jang Albert A Sartor Oliver O Barata Pedro C PC Paller Channing J CJ
Cancers 20201121 11
Metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) is an incurable malignancy with a poor prognosis. Up to 30% of patients with mCRPC have mutations in homologous recombination repair (HRR) genes. Poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors take advantage of HRR deficiency to kill tumor cells based on the concept of synthetic lethality. Several PARP inhibitors (PARPis) have been successful in various malignancies with HRR gene mutations including BRCA1/2, especially in breast cancer and ...[more]