Regulatory approval

Published by the European Medicines Agency.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has authorized olaparib as a monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with germline BRCA1/2-mutations, who have HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. Patients should have previously been treated with an anthracycline and a taxane in the (neo)adjuvant or metastatic setting unless patients were not suitable for these treatments. Patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer should also have progressed on or after prior endocrine therapy, or be considered sunsuitable for endocrine therapy.

This is written in the approval document as:

Lynparza is indicated as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with germline BRCA1/2-mutations, who have HER2 negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer. Patients should have previously been treated with an anthracycline and a taxane in the (neo)adjuvant or metastatic setting unless patients were not suitable for these treatments. Patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive breast cancer should also have progressed on or after prior endocrine therapy, or be considered unsuitable for endocrine therapy.

Citation

AstraZeneca AB. Lynparza (olaparib) [product information]. European Medicines Agency website. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/product-information/lynparza-epar-product-information_en.pdf. Revised August 2024. Accessed August 25, 2024.

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Type	Biomarker(s)	Cancer type	Therapy(ies)
Sensitivity (+)	BRCA1 pathogenic variants, HER2-negative	Invasive Breast Carcinoma	Olaparib
Sensitivity (+)	BRCA2 pathogenic variants, HER2-negative	Invasive Breast Carcinoma	Olaparib