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DNA-Repair Defects and Olaparib in Metastatic Prostate Cancer.

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N Engl J Med2015PMID 26510020PMC5228595stubpubmedProvenance
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CIViC — Clinical Interpretation of Variants in Cancer
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TherapyCancerTypeLevelDirection · significanceRating (1–5)StatusEvidenceSource
ATM Mutation1
OlaparibMalignant Prostate NeoplasmPredictiveCSupports Sensitivity Response3accepted
EID1960

Response to olaparib was observed in 4 of 5 with prostate cancer patients with ATM aberrations (2 germline).

PMID 26510020 · Mateo et al., 2015 · Open in CIViC

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ATM N2875H1
OlaparibMalignant Prostate NeoplasmPredictiveCSupports Sensitivity Response3accepted
EID648

Treatment with the PARP inhibitor olaparib in patients whose prostate cancers were no longer responding to standard treatments and who had defects in DNA-repair genes led to a high response rate. Over… (full text at CIViC)

PMID 26510020 · Mateo et al., 2015 · Open in CIViC

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ATM S2289*1
OlaparibMalignant Prostate NeoplasmPredictiveCSupports Sensitivity Response3accepted
EID647

Treatment with the PARP inhibitor olaparib in patients whose prostate cancers were no longer responding to standard treatments and who had defects in DNA-repair genes led to a high response rate. Over… (full text at CIViC)

PMID 26510020 · Mateo et al., 2015 · Open in CIViC

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BRCA1 Loss-of-function1
OlaparibMalignant Prostate NeoplasmPredictiveCSupports Sensitivity Response2accepted
EID845

1/1 patients with BRCA1 homozygous deletion had a response to olaparib in this phase 2 study.

PMID 26510020 · Mateo et al., 2015 · Open in CIViC

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BRCA2 Loss-of-function1
OlaparibMalignant Prostate NeoplasmPredictiveBSupports Sensitivity Response4accepted
EID650

In a phase 2 trial of patients with metastatic, castration-resistant prostate cancer, treated with olaparib tablets at a dose of 400 mg twice a day, all 7 patients harbouring BRCA2 loss of function al… (full text at CIViC)

PMID 26510020 · Mateo et al., 2015 · Open in CIViC

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MRE11 Frameshift1
OlaparibMalignant Prostate NeoplasmPredictiveBSupports Sensitivity Response2accepted
EID1016

One patient in a cohort of 50 patients with metastatic prostate cancer had a frameshift mutation in the MRE11, ATM, MLH3 and NBN genes and showed clinical response to PARP inhibitor olaparib (16 weeks… (full text at CIViC)

PMID 26510020 · Mateo et al., 2015 · Open in CIViC

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MRE11 Loss1
Unspecified therapyMalignant Prostate NeoplasmPredictiveCSupports Sensitivity Response2rejected
EID877

One patient in a cohort of 50 patients with metastatic prostate cancer had a frameshift mutation in the MRE11 gene and showed clinical response to PARP inhibitor olaparib.

PMID 26510020 · Mateo et al., 2015 · Open in CIViC

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PALB2 Biallelic Inactivation1
OlaparibMalignant Prostate NeoplasmPredictiveCSupports Sensitivity Response3accepted
EID1963

From 14 prostate cancer patients (88%) who had a response to olaparib, 7 patients had BRCA2 loss (4 with biallelic somatic loss, and 3 with germline mutations), 4 of 5 with had ATM aberrations and one… (full text at CIViC)

PMID 26510020 · Mateo et al., 2015 · Open in CIViC

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