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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

AstraZeneca’s Lynparza OK’d in Europe for BRCA+ pancreatic cancer

The European Commission has approved AstraZeneca’s (NYSE:AZN) PARP inhibitor Lynparza (olaparib) for the treatment of patients with germline BRCA-mutated metastatic pancreatic cancer.
About 5-7% of metastatic pancreatic cancer patients have such a germline mutation.
Lynparza is approved in the U.S. and several other countries as first-line maintenance treatment for these patients.

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