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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

media item: Magee-Womens Hospital - ovarian cancer recruitment - ABT-888/PARP

Drug Tested Against Women's Cancers
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) - Apr. 14, 2010

Apr. 14--Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC is recruiting patients with recurrent ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal cancers who have already had chemotherapy for a national, Phase 2 clinical trial of the drug ABT-888.

ABT-888 works by targeting the PARP family of enzymes, which are responsible for a wide variety of cancer cell processes, principal investigator Kristin Zorn said. The PARP pathway is one of the mechanisms used by cancer cells to repair damage caused by chemotherapy....cont'd

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