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January 15, 2019  |  By V Foundation  |  In Blog

Building on the Promise of PARP Inhibitors

Cancer drugs known as PARP inhibitors target an enzyme that repairs damaged DNA. Blocking this repair mechanism can keep cancer cells from repairing themselves and cause them to die. However, not all cancers respond well to PARP inhibitors. In particular, about half of cancers with mutations to the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes (mutations […]

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