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FDA Approves First Treatment for Breast Cancer with a Certain Inherited Genetic Mutation

Lynparza 150mg Tablet
Lynparza 150mg Tablet (Source: Good Rx)

Silver Spring, Maryland—(ENEWSPF)—January 12, 2018

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By: Angela Stark

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approved use of Lynparza (olaparib tablets) to include the treatment of patients with certain types of breast cancer that have spread (metastasized) and whose tumors have a specific inherited (germline) genetic mutation, making it the first drug in its class (PARP inhibitor) approved to treat breast cancer, and it is the first…

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