PARP Inhibitors Provide New Promise for Certain Me...
Breast Cancer
PARP Inhibitors Provide New Promise for Certain Metastatic Breast Cancers
PARP inhibitors are a new form of targeted therapy that can stop cancer cells from repairing their damaged DNA, causing them to die. The FDA recently approved PARP inhibitors for the treatment of BRCA-mutation related metastatic breast cancer. Those kinds of cancers are more likely to be triple negative breast cancer, which can be more aggressive. Recent data has shown that women who received PARP inhibitors did better overall than patients who received chemotherapy.
“This broadens our arsenal for the treatment of triple negative breast cancer beyond conventional chemotherapy,” says Dr. Heather McArthur, Medical Director of Breast Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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PARP inhibitors are a new form of targeted therapy that can stop cancer cells from repairing their damaged DNA, causing them to die. The FDA recently approved PARP inhibitors for the treatment of BRCA-mutation related metastatic breast cancer. Those kinds of cancers are more likely to be triple negative breast cancer, which can be more aggressive. Recent data has shown that women who received PARP inhibitors did better overall than patients who received chemotherapy.
“This broadens our arsenal for the treatment of triple negative breast cancer beyond conventional chemotherapy,” says Dr. Heather McArthur, Medical Director of Breast Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
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