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Stellar Survival Data For AZ's Lynparza Hailed At ESMO

 
• By Kevin Grogan

Clinicians and analysts have lauded spectacular results presented at ESMO from the SOLO-1 trial which strongly suggest that AstraZeneca's Lynparza should be the first-line maintenance treatment of choice for ovarian cancer patients with a BRCA mutation.

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Lynparza leaps further ahead in the PARP class after SOLO-1 • Source: Shutterstock

Expectations were high going into ESMO for AstraZeneca PLC's Lynparza (olaparib) and went through the roof at the Munich congress as stunning data from the SOLO-1 trial showed that maintenance therapy with the PARP inhibitor extended progression-free survival (PFS) by three years in patients with advanced ovarian cancer.

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