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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted accelerated approval to Rubraca™ (rucaparib) for the treatment of women with advanced ovarian cancer who have been treated with two or more chemotherapies and whose tumors have a BRCA gene mutation. Each year in the U.S. roughly 22,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer and more … Continue reading "Rubraca™ Is Granted Accelerated Approval for Advanced Ovarian Cancer"

AstraZeneca has announced positive results from the Phase III SOLO-2 trial designed to determine the efficacy of LynparzaTM (olaparib) oral therapy for the maintenance treatment of platinum-sensitive relapsed, BRCA-mutated ovarian cancer.1 Results from the trial demonstrate a clinically-meaningful improvement in survival free of cancer progression. Importantly, the median time to cancer progression for Lynparza-treated patients … Continue reading "Lynparza™ Clinical Trial Demonstrates Survival Benefit in Relapsed Ovarian Cancer"

Each year in the United States, roughly 22,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer and more than 15,000 die of the disease. Treatment for ovarian cancer commonly involves surgery and/or chemotherapy. Researchers continue to study new approaches for improving the outcomes of all women affected by ovarian cancer but progress has been slow. The PARP … Continue reading "Update on PARP Inhibitors for Ovarian Cancer with BRCA Mutations"

Patients with platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer showed significantly improved cancer-free survival with Tesaro (niraparib) in the first clinical trial directly comparing a poly(ADP)-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor with chemotherapy. Tesaro improved cancer-free survival by 73% in patients with a BRCA mutation and by 55% in those without such mutations. The new data were presented at the … Continue reading "Tesaro Provides Real Benefit to Ovarian Cancer Patients"

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a New Drug Application (NDA) for accelerated approval of rucaparib and granted priority review status to the application for the treatment of advanced ovarian cancer in patients with deleterious BRCA-mutated cancers. Rucaparib was granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by the FDA in April 2015. About Ovarian Cancer … Continue reading "FDA Accepts Priority Review of Rucaparib For The Treatment Of Advanced Mutant BRCA Ovarian Cancer"

A new joint clinical practice guideline from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) and the Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO) states that neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is the optimal first-line treatment for some women who have newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer. While the standard of care in this setting is primary cytoreductive surgery (PCS) followed … Continue reading "SGO, ASCO Issue New Guidelines for Ovarian Cancer Treatment"