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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Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom
Northern Institute for Cancer, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust,, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Velindre Cancer Centre, Wales, United Kingdom
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom
Hopitaux Universitaire de Strasbourg - Hopital Civil, Strasbourg, France
Institut Claudius Regaud, Toulouse, France
Hopitaux Du Leman, Thonon-les-Bains, France
Research Site, Madrid, Spain
The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States
Research Site, Surrey, United Kingdom
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