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Sustained benefit of adjuvant olaparib in women with germline BRCA1- and BRCA2- -associated high-risk HER2-negative early breast cancer: Updated results from the OlympiA phase III trial.

A year of targeted drug therapy reduces breast cancer recurrence risk for women with BRCA mutations.

This PubMed record reports the randomised phase III OlympiA trial (NCT02032823) compared 1 year of adjuvant olaparib (oral poly-(ADP-ribose) polymerase [PARP] inhibitor) to placebo in 1,836 patients with pathogenic/likely pathogenic BRCA1 or BRCA2 (gBRCApv) germline variants and high-risk human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative early breast cancer (BC). The study was classified as randomized controlled trial and is relevant to treatment innovation.

What the study was

Study design
Randomized controlled trial
Category
Treatment Innovation
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology

Why it surfaced

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