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Lynparza tablets (olaparib) tablets were granted FDA approval as a maintenance therapy for patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer, who are in a complete or partial response to platinum-based chemotherapy.

The FDA has approved CPX-351 (Vyxeos), a fixed-combination of daunorubicin and cytarabine, for adult patients with either newly-diagnosed therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia (t-AML) ot AML with myelodysplasia-related changes (AML-MRC).

Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian cancer expert, David M. Gershenson, MD, from University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discusses three treatments for some of the rare types of ovarian cancers and the challenges to treating these diseases.

“If you locked everybody in a room for a week, I think we could come up with something that everybody would be comfortable with,” said Blase Polite, MD, a co-author of the statement, and immediate past chair of ASCO’s government relations committee.