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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Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
University of Iowa/Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, Colorado, United States
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States
Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori di Napoli, Naples, Italy
The POLEmut-BLUE trial: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
The MMRd-GREEN trial: Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands
Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan, United States
St. Vincent-Frontier Cancer Center, Billings, Montana, United States
Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, New Jersey, United States
Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Mary Crowley Medical Research Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
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