On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the molecularly targeted therapeutic olaparib (Lynparza) for treating certain patients with metastatic, HER2-negative breast cancer. The FDA also granted marketing authorization for a test to identify those patients eligible to receive olaparib: patients with an inherited, cancer-associated BRCA1 or BRCA2 (BRCA1/2) mutation.
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Several clinical trials are underway in which PARP inhibitors are being tested in breast cancers, mostly triple-negative breast cancers, because they often harbor BRCA mutations and DNA repair deficiencies. Emerging studies show that the benefit of PARP inhibitors could extend beyond breast cancers with germline BRCA mutations.
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Two studies presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2017 showed that tumors that have mutations in the proteins isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 or -2 (IDH1/2) exhibited features similar to that of BRCA-mutant tumors and are, therefore, more likely to respond better to PARP inhibitors than to IDH inhibitors.
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Earlier this week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the molecularly targeted therapeutic niraparib (Zejula) for the maintenance treatment of adult patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancers that are responding to platinum-based chemotherapy.
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In my first post in this series highlighting some of the studies presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2015 that hold promise for combination cancer therapies, I discussed clinical trials …
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