PARP inhibitors in ovarian cancer

G Mittica, E Ghisoni, G Giannone… - Recent patents on …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Treatment of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer (EOC), historically based on surgery
and platinum doublet chemotherapy, is associated with high risk of relapse and poor …

PARP inhibitors in the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer

JJJ Geenen, SC Linn, JH Beijnen… - Clinical …, 2018 - Springer
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease, manifesting in a broad differentiation in
phenotypes and morphologic profiles, resulting in variable clinical behavior. Between 10 …

Phase 1 trial evaluating cisplatin, gemcitabine, and veliparib in 2 patient cohorts: Germline BRCA mutation carriers and wild‐type BRCA pancreatic ductal …

EM O'Reilly, JW Lee, MA Lowery, M Capanu… - Cancer, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND A phase 1 trial was used to evaluate a combination of cisplatin,
gemcitabine, and escalating doses of veliparib in patients with untreated advanced …

Phase I combination study of the PARP inhibitor veliparib plus carboplatin and gemcitabine in patients with advanced ovarian cancer and other solid malignancies

HJ Gray, K Bell-McGuinn, GF Fleming, M Cristea… - Gynecologic …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective Determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and recommended phase II dose
(RP2D) of veliparib combined with carboplatin and gemcitabine in patients with advanced …

A phase 2 study of the PARP inhibitor veliparib plus temozolomide in patients with heavily pretreated metastatic colorectal cancer

MJ Pishvaian, RS Slack, W Jiang, AR He, JJ Hwang… - Cancer, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Poly (adenosine diphosphate ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors such as
veliparib are potent sensitizing agents and have been safely combined with DNA‐damaging …

ABT-888 restores sensitivity in temozolomide resistant glioma cells and xenografts

AL Yuan, CB Ricks, AK Bohm, X Lun, L Maxwell… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background Temozolomide (TMZ) is active against glioblastomas (GBM) in which the O6-
methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase (MGMT) gene is silenced. However, even in …

Phase 0, including microdosing approaches: applying the three Rs and increasing the efficiency of human drug development

T Burt, LT Vuong, E Baker, GC Young… - Alternatives to …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Phase 0 approaches, including microdosing, involve the use of sub-therapeutic exposures
to the tested drugs, thus enabling safer, more-relevant, quicker and cheaper first-in-human …

[HTML][HTML] Improved pharmacodynamic (PD) assessment of low dose PARP inhibitor PD activity for radiotherapy and chemotherapy combination trials

R de Haan, D Pluim, B van Triest… - Radiotherapy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background PARP inhibitors are currently evaluated in combination with radiotherapy
and/or chemotherapy. As sensitizers, PARP inhibitors are active at very low concentrations …

Safety and pharmacokinetics of veliparib extended‐release in patients with advanced solid tumors: a phase I study

TL Werner, J Sachdev, EM Swisher… - Cancer …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The poly (ADP‐ribose) polymerase‐1/2 inhibitor veliparib is active against tumors deficient
in homologous DNA damage repair. The pharmacokinetics and safety of veliparib extended …

The development of PARP as a successful target for cancer therapy

R Ferrara, F Simionato, C Ciccarese… - Expert Review of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: PARP1 and BRCA genes are essential genome caretakers and their interaction
has been the first example of synthetic lethality, a genetic concept proposed in the early 20th …