ALT	alternative lengthening of telomeres
APL	acute promyelocytic leukemia
B-NHEJ	backup non-homologous end-joining
BER	base excision repair
BIR	break-induced replication
BRCA1/2 HR	BRCA1/2-mediated homologous recombination
CML	chronic myeloid leukemia
CPC	cancer progenitor cell
D-NHEJ	DNA-PK-mediated non-homologous end-joining
DDR	DNA damage response
D-Loop	displacement loop
DSB	DNA double strand break
EOC	epithelial ovarian cancer
HR	homologous recombination
MMEJ	microhomology-mediated end-joining
NHEJ	non-homologous end-joining
PARP1i	poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase 1 inhibitor
RAD52 HR	RAD52-mediated homologous recombination
RAD52i	RAD52 inhibitor
SSA	single strand annealing
SSB	DNA single strand break
ssDNA	single stranded DNA
TA-HR	transcription-associated homologous recombination
TC-HR	transcription-coupled homologous recombination
TNBC	triple negative breast cancer