Olaparib

Background: Olaparib is a selective and potent inhibitor of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) enzymes, PARP1 and PARP2. PARP inhibitors represent a novel class of anti-cancer therapy and they work by taking advantage of a defect in DNA repair in cancer cells with BRCA mutations and inducing cell death.
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Indication: Ovarian cancer

Olaparib is indicated for the maintenance treatment of adults with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline or somatic BRCA-mutated advanced epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer who are in complete or partial response to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.
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Associated Conditions: Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer, Advanced Fallopian Tube Carcinoma, Advanced Primary Peritoneal Carcinoma, High risk, early breast cancer, Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Breast Cancer (LABC), Metastatic Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreas, Metastatic Breast Cancer, Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (mCRPC), Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Metastatic, Recurrent Epithelial Ovarian Cancer, Recurrent Fallopian Tube Cancer, Stage I Breast Cancer, Advanced high-grade epithelial ovarian cancer, Advanced, high-grade Primary Peritoneal Cancer, High-grade advanced Fallopian Tubes Cancer, Recurrent platinum sensitive primary peritoneal cancer, Relapsed Platinum-Sensitive Epithelial Ovarian Cancer, Relapsed platinum sensitive primary peritoneal cancer, Relapsed platinum-sensitive fallopian tube cancer

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