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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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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Gustave Roussy Institut, Villejuif, France
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Si Chuan, China
Agaplesion Frankfurter Diakonie Kliniken gGmbH, Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, Germany
MVZ für Hämatologie und Onkologie Ravensburg GmbH Studienzentrum, Ravensburg, Germany
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale (ASST) Lariana, San Fermo Della Battaglia, Como, Italy
Istituto Oncologico Veneto IRCCS, Padova, Italy
Research Site, Vinh, Vietnam
New York University Langone Health, New York, New York, United States
Mid Florida Cancer Centers, Orange City, Florida, United States
Florida Cancer Specialists, Sarasota, Florida, United States
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