The FDA has approved the oral PARP inhibitor talazoparib plus enzalutamide to treat homologous recombination repair gene–mutated metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Pfizer also noted that a marketing authorization application for the drug combination has been accepted for review by the European Medicines Agency.
"Despite treatment advancement in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, the disease can progress quickly, and many patients may only receive one line of therapy," lead investigator Neeraj Agarwal, MD, of the Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah,.
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