Niraparib in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Advanced Ovarian Cancer
Patients with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer were randomly assigned to receive daily niraparib, a PARP inhibitor, or placebo as maintenance therapy after having had a response to platinum-based chemotherapy. Progression-free survival was significantly longer in the niraparib group than in t...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The New England journal of medicine 2019-12, Vol.381 (25), p.2391-2402 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Patients with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer were randomly assigned to receive daily niraparib, a PARP inhibitor, or placebo as maintenance therapy after having had a response to platinum-based chemotherapy. Progression-free survival was significantly longer in the niraparib group than in the placebo group, with some increase in the frequency of myelosuppression and nausea. |
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ISSN: | 0028-4793 1533-4406 |
DOI: | 10.1056/NEJMoa1910962 |