article_snippet.sent: PARP inhibitors work by blocking the cancer cell
article_snippet.sent: Cancer cells that have a mutation in a BRCA gene rely completely on PARP inhibitors to fix the damage.
article_snippet.sent: PARP inhibitor drugs suppress PARP inhibitors and can stop BRCA mutated cells from growing so BRCA mutated cells eventually die.
article_snippet.sent: PARP inhibitors work by blocking the cancer cell
article_snippet.sent: Cancer cells that have a mutation in a BRCA gene rely completely on PARP inhibitors to fix the damage.
article_snippet.sent: PARP inhibitor drugs suppress PARP inhibitors and can stop mutated cells from growing.
article_snippet.sent: This shows that PARP inhibitors can be effective in a wider group of patients than had been thought – in men as well as women, patients with mutations in women tumours as well as those with inherited mutations, and in those with a wider range of gene defects.