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CHMP Issues Positive Opinion for Lynparza as Maintenance Treatment in BRCA-Mutated Pancreatic Cancer

Jun 01, 2020
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NEW YORK – The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) today recommended approval of olaparib (AstraZeneca/Merck's Lynparza) for the maintenance treatment of adult patients with germline BRCA1/2 mutations with metastatic pancreatic cancer who are responding to first-line platinum chemotherapy.

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