Lynparza receives added EU approval

8 May 2018

The European Medicines Agency has approved Lynparza (olaparib) tablets (300mg twice daily) for use as a maintenance therapy for patients with platinum-sensitive relapsed high-grade, epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who are in complete response or partial response to platinum-based chemotherapy, regardless of BRCA status.

Lynparza was originally developed by Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca (LSE: AZN) but US pharma giant Merck & Co (NYSE: MRK) recently agreed to pay up to $8.5 billion to develop and commercialize the product jointly.

Dave Fredrickson, executive vice president, head of the Oncology Business Unit at AstraZeneca, said: “With this new approval for Lynparza, we will now be able to offer more women with platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer, regardless of their BRCA status, a chance to achieve long-term disease control with an oral medicine that has a well-characterised safety and tolerability profile.”

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