Lynparza approved in the EU for prostate cancer
5 November 2020 07:10 GMT Lynparza approved in the EU for the treatment of BRCA-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer Only PARP inhibitor to improve overall survival vs. new hormonal agent treatments in BRCA-mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer AstraZeneca and MSD's Lynparza (olaparib) has been approved in the European Union (EU) for patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) with breast cancer susceptibility gene 1/2 (BRCA1/2) mutations, a subpopulation of homologous recombination repair (HRR) gene mutations.