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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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Krankenhaus Hietzing, Vienna, Austria
CHU Dinant Godinne, Yvoir, Belgium
Research Site, Wirral, United Kingdom
Alaska Women's Cancer Care, Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Atrium Health Navicent, Macon, Georgia, United States
Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center, Gresham, Oregon, United States
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Research Site, Hangzhou, China
MD Anderson in The Woodlands, Conroe, Texas, United States
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
MD Anderson West Houston, Houston, Texas, United States
Fondazione del Piemonte per l'Oncologia IRCC Candiolo, Candiolo, Torino, Italy
Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli - Unit of Chemotherapy of Muscoloskeletal Tumors, Bologna, Italy
Istituto Nazionale Tumori - Unit of Medical Oncology, Milano, Italy
Research Site, Sutton, United Kingdom
Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, United States
NCI - Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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