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S C Goulooze1, A F Cohen1,2, R Rissmann1,2.
Abstract
Olaparib is used to treat BReast CAncer susceptibility protein (BRCA)-associated, platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer. Olaparib inhibits poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, thereby blocking the repair of single-strand DNA breaks. This results in synthetic lethality in BRCA-associated cancer cells, which have a dysfunction of another DNA repair pathway - homologous recombination.Entities:
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Year: 2015 PMID: 26344419 PMCID: PMC4693566 DOI: 10.1111/bcp.12761
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Clin Pharmacol ISSN: 0306-5251 Impact factor: 4.335