Olaparib Wins in Early BRCA-Mutant Breast Cancer
email article The addition of olaparib (Lynparza) to standard treatment significantly improved disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with early, high-risk HER2-negative breast cancer and germline BRCA mutations, according to results from a phase III study. Interim findings from the OlympiA trial showed that patients receiving the PARP inhibitor had a 42% reduction in the risk of invasive DFS versus patients receiving placebo (HR 0.58, 95% CI 0.41-0.82), and a 43% reduction in the risk of distant DFS (HR 0.57, 95% CI 0.39-0.83), reported Andrew Tutt, MB, ChB, PhD, of the Institute of ...