The FDA has announced that it has awarded marketing authorisation in the US to Lynparza (olaparib), a poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor developed by AstraZeneca and MSD as part of a partnership agreed in July 2017.
The therapy is approved for the treatment of deleterious or suspected deleterious germline BRCA-mutated (gBRCAm), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative metastatic breast cancer in adult patients who have been previously treated with chemotherapy in the neoadjuvant, adjuvant or metastatic setting.
