DNA damage repair: historical perspectives, mechanistic pathways and clinical translation for targeted cancer therapy

R Huang, PK Zhou - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic instability is the hallmark of various cancers with the increasing accumulation of
DNA damage. The application of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in cancer treatment is …

[HTML][HTML] 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) resistance and the new strategy to enhance the sensitivity against cancer: Implication of DNA repair inhibition

C Sethy, CN Kundu - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2021 - Elsevier
Fluorouracil (5-FU) has been an important anti-cancer drug to date. With an increase in the
knowledge of its mechanism of action, various treatment modalities have been developed …

The role of PARP inhibitors in BRCA mutated pancreatic cancer

J Chi, SY Chung, R Parakrama… - Therapeutic …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) accounts for about 3% of all cancers in the
United States and about 7% of all cancer deaths. Despite the lower prevalence relative to …

Precision Medicine for BRCA/PALB2-Mutated Pancreatic Cancer and Emerging Strategies to Improve Therapeutic Responses to PARP Inhibition

DR Principe - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary For the small subset of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients
with loss-of-function mutations to BRCA1/2 or PALB2, both first-line and maintenance …

Targeting DNA damage response and immune checkpoint for anticancer therapy

JL Huang, YT Chang, ZY Hong, CS Lin - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Deficiency in DNA damage response (DDR) genes leads to impaired DNA repair functions
that will induce genomic instability and facilitate cancer development. However, alterations …

Treatment opportunities and future perspectives for pancreatic cancer patients with germline BRCA1-2 pathogenic variants

M Macchini, F Centonze, U Peretti, G Orsi… - Cancer Treatment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Personalized treatments and predictive biomarkers of pancreatic cancer (PDAC) are still
lacking. Recently germline mutations in BRCA 1 and 2 genes, leading to homologous repair …

FeC19 cage vehicle for fluorouracil anticancer drug delivery: DFT approach

AM Dhumad, HJ Majeed, H Zandi… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work was performed by the importance of applications of nanostructures in drug
delivery processes especially for anticancer consumption. Fluorouracil (FU) is a known …

Targeting BRCA and DNA damage repair genes in GI cancers: pathophysiology and clinical perspectives

K Zimmer, F Kocher, A Puccini, A Seeber - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Mutated germline alleles in the DNA damage repair (DDR) genes “breast cancer gene
1”(BRCA1) and BRCA2 have originally been identified as major susceptibility genes in …

The next frontier in pancreatic cancer: Targeting the tumor immune milieu and molecular pathways

C Yin, A Alqahtani, MS Noel - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a notoriously bad
prognosis due to its high mortality and lack of good therapies. Chemotherapy is the current …

Therapeutic potential of PARP inhibitors in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers

A Alhusaini, A Cannon, SG Maher, JV Reynolds… - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies are a major global health burden, with high mortality
rates. The identification of novel therapeutic strategies is crucial to improve treatment and …