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Fanconi Anemia: Diagnosis and Treatment

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Conclusions:1) Conventional cancer treatments (Radiation <strong>and</strong> Chemotherapy) killtumors by causing DNA damage.2) There are six major DNA Repair pathways, <strong>and</strong> each pathway hassuitable biomarkers <strong>and</strong> druggable targets3) There is an emerging class of DNA repair inhibitors which h maybe useful in cancer chemotherapy as sensitizers of conventionaltreatments.4) Based on the principle of Synthetic Lethality, DNA repair inhibitors,such as Parp or Atm inhibitors, may be useful as Monotherapy for somecancers with underlying DNA repair defects.5) Biomarkers of the FA pathway provide a convenient predictor ofsubsets of human tumors which are sensitive to Parp <strong>and</strong> Atm pinhibitors. relevant

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