Earle Burgess, MD, associate professor of medicine, Levine Cancer Institute, Atrium Health, explains which patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) are optimal for treatment with PARP inhibitors. The PARP inhibitors olaparib (Lynparza) and rucaparib (Rubraca) are approved by the FDA for the treatment of patients with mCRPC.
Olaparib monotherapy shows benefit in HRR+ biochemically recurrent prostate cancer
August 22nd 2024“This study is a breakthrough because it is the first trial to show that a non-hormonal drug can induce durable complete remissions in recurrent prostate cancer patients with BRCA2 mutations—one of the most aggressive subtypes of this disease,” says Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, MD.