Abstract
Most patients with advanced high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) develop recurrent disease within 3 years and succumb to the disease within 5 years. Standard treatment for HGSOC is cytoreductive surgery followed by a combination of platinum (carboplatin or cisplatin) and taxol (paclitaxel) chemotherapies. Although initial recurrences are usually platinum-sensitive, patients eventually develop resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy. Accordingly, one of the major problems in the treatment of HGSOC and disease recurrence is the development of chemotherapy resistance. One of the causes of chemoresistance may be redundancies in the repair pathways involved in the response to DNA damage caused by chemotherapy. These pathways may be acting in parallel, where if the repair pathway that is responsible for triggering cell death after platinum chemotherapy therapy is deficient, an alternative repair pathway compensates and drives cancer cells to repair the damage, leading to chemotherapy resistance. In addition, if the repair pathways are epigenetically inactivated by DNA methylation, cell death may not be triggered, resulting in accumulation of mutations and DNA damage. There are novel and existing therapies that can drive DNA repair pathways towards sensitivity to platinum chemotherapy or targeted therapy, thus enabling treatment-resistant ovarian cancer to overcome chemotherapy resistance.
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