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FDA Grants Accelerated Approval to New Treatment for Advanced Ovarian Cancer

Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–December 22, 2016. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to Rubraca (rucaparib) to treat women with a certain type of ovarian cancer. Rubraca is approved for women with advanced ovarian cancer who have been treated with two or more chemotherapies and whose tumors have a specific gene mutation (deleterious BRCA) as identified by an FDA-approved companion diagnostic test.

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