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Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1 Inhibitor Treatment Regresses Autochthonous Brca2/p53-Mutant Mammary Tumors In vivo and Delays Tumor Relapse in Combination with Carboplatin

¹ Department of Genetics, School of Biosciences, and ² Department of Pathology, Wales College of Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom; ³ KuDOS Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom; and ⁴ MRC-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Key Words: Brca2 • p53 • mammary tumors • PARP inhibition • carboplatin

Germ-line heterozygosity of the BRCA2 gene in women predisposes to breast and ovarian cancers. Successful therapies targeted specifically at these neoplasms have thus far remained elusive. Recent studies in mice have shown that inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP-1) targets cells lacking Brca2 and xenografts derived from BRCA2-deficient ES cells or Chinese hamster ovary cells. We set out to develop a more relevant preclinical model that will inform and accelerate translation into the clinic. As such, we conditionally deleted Brca2 and p53 within murine mammary epithelium and treated the resulting tumors in situ with a highly potent PARP-1 inhibitor (AZD2281) alone or in combination with carboplatin. Daily exposure to AZD2281 for 28 days caused significant regression or growth inhibition in 46 of 52 tumors. This response was shown to be specific to tumors lacking both Brca2and p53. AZD2281/carboplatin combination therapy for 28 days showed no advantage over carboplatin monotherapy. However, if PARP inhibitor treatment was continued, this significantly increased the time to tumor relapse and death in these mice. This preclinical study is the first to show in vivo hypersensitivity of spontaneously arising Brca2-deficient mammary tumors to PARP-1 inhibition monotherapy or combination therapy. As such, our data add substantial weight to the argument for the use of PARP inhibitors as therapeutic agents against human breast cancers in which BRCA2 is mutated. Moreover, the specificity that we have shown further suggests that PARP inhibitors will be generally effective against tumors caused by dysregulation of components of the homologous recombination pathway. [Cancer Res 2009;69(9):3850–55]

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