Genomic Analysis of Three Metastatic Prostate Cancer Patients with Exceptional Responses to Carboplatin Indicating Different Types of DNA Repair Deficiency.

Zafeiriou, Zafeiris; Bianchini, Diletta; Chandler, Robert; Rescigno, Pasquale; Yuan, Wei; Carreira, Suzanne; Barrero, Maialen; Petremolo, Antonella et al. · Eur Urol · 2019

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

Platinum-based regimens have not been proved to increase survival from advanced prostate cancer (PCa). Incontrovertible evidence that a proportion of prostate cancers have homologous recombination DNA (HRD) repair defects, and that such genomic aberrations are synthetically lethal with both poly(ADP)-ribose polymerase inhibition and platinum, has increased interest in the utilisation of these drugs against a subset of these diseases. Here in we report three patients with advanced castration-resistant PCa with HRD defects having exceptional responses to carboplatin.

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