Lynparza (olaparib) Receives Health Canada Approval for the Treatment of BRCA or ATM Gene-Mutated Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
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Health Canada approved Lynparza (olaparib), for the treatment of adult patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline and/or somatic BRCA or ATM-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) who have progressed following prior treatment with a new hormonal agent (NHA).
Next-generation sequencing-guided molecular-targeted therapy and immunotherapy for biliary tract cancers
Published date:
10/23/2020
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Patients who received NGS-guided therapy exhibited higher OS (not achieved vs. 6.5 months, p < 0.001) and ORR (87.5% vs. 25%, p < 0.001) than those without targetable mutations and who received first-line chemotherapy. BTCs harboring mutations in IDH1, ATM/BRCA2, or MAP2K1/BRAF (V600E) received treatment with dasatinib, olaparib, or trametinib, respectively....All these patients achieved complete response or partial response.