Lynparza approved in the EU as 1st-line maintenance treatment with bevacizumab for HRD-positive advanced ovarian cancer
Patients treated with Lynparza and bevacizumab lived without diseas progression for a median of 37.2 months vs. 17.7 months with bevacizumab alone One in two women with advanced ovarian cancer has an HRD-positive tumourAstraZeneca and MSD’s Lynparza (olaparib) has been approved in the European Union (EU) for the 1st-line maintenance treatment with bevacizumab of patients with homologous recombination deficient (HRD)-positive advanced ovarian cancer. Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cause of cancer death in the EU and the five-year survival rate is approximately 45%, due partly