Therapeutic Response

BRCA2 oncogenic variants status confers therapeutic sensitivity to Olaparib in patients with High-Grade Serous Fallopian Tube Cancer.

Statements

Source and description
Lynparza (olaparib) [package insert]. FDA. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval to olaparib for the maintenance treatment of adult patients 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. Olaparib's product label specifies to select patients for therapy based on an FDA-approved companion diagnostic for Lynparza.
Lynparza (olaparib) [package insert]. FDA. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval to olaparib for the maintenance treatment of adult patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline or somatic BRCA-mutated recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer, who are in complete or partial response to platinum-based chemotherapy. Olaparib's product label specifies to select patients for therapy based on an FDA-approved companion diagnostic for Lynparza.
Lynparza (olaparib) [product information]. EMA. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has authorized olaparib as a monotherapy for the maintenance treatment of adult patients with advanced (FIGO stages III and IV) BRCA1/2-mutated (germline and/or somatic) high-grade epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who are in response (complete or partial) following completion of first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.