PMID- 22258607 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120306 LR - 20220410 IS - 1476-4687 (Electronic) IS - 0028-0836 (Linking) VI - 481 IP - 7381 DP - 2012 Jan 18 TI - The DNA damage response and cancer therapy. PG - 287-94 LID - 10.1038/nature10760 [doi] AB - Genomic instability is one of the most pervasive characteristics of tumour cells and is probably the combined effect of DNA damage, tumour-specific DNA repair defects, and a failure to stop or stall the cell cycle before the damaged DNA is passed on to daughter cells. Although these processes drive genomic instability and ultimately the disease process, they also provide therapeutic opportunities. A better understanding of the cellular response to DNA damage will not only inform our knowledge of cancer development but also help to refine the classification as well as the treatment of the disease. FAU - Lord, Christopher J AU - Lord CJ AD - The Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Centre, The Institute of Cancer Research, Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, UK. chris.lord@icr.ac.uk FAU - Ashworth, Alan AU - Ashworth A LA - eng GR - BREAST CANCER NOW RESEARCH CENTRE/BCN_/Breast Cancer Now/United Kingdom GR - WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom GR - CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20120118 PL - England TA - Nature JT - Nature JID - 0410462 RN - 0 (Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase Inhibitors) RN - EC 2.4.2.30 (Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases) SB - IM MH - *DNA Damage/drug effects MH - DNA Repair/drug effects MH - Genomic Instability/drug effects MH - Humans MH - Molecular Targeted Therapy MH - Neoplasms/*genetics/pathology/*therapy MH - Neoplastic Stem Cells/drug effects/pathology MH - Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerase Inhibitors MH - Poly(ADP-ribose) Polymerases/metabolism MH - Tumor Microenvironment/drug effects EDAT- 2012/01/20 06:00 MHDA- 2012/03/07 06:00 CRDT- 2012/01/20 06:00 PHST- 2012/01/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2012/01/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/03/07 06:00 [medline] AID - nature10760 [pii] AID - 10.1038/nature10760 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Nature. 2012 Jan 18;481(7381):287-94. doi: 10.1038/nature10760.