US regulators have approved Pfizer’s PARP inhibitor Talzenna to treat patients with breast cancer carrying a certain mutation, identified by a companion diagnostic developed by Myriad.
Single-agent talazoparib provides significant benefit over standard chemotherapy for patients with advanced breast cancer and germline BRCA1/2 mutation, according to a study published online Aug. 15 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have accepted for review Pfizer’s PARP inhibitor talazoparib as a treatment for women with a hereditary BRCA mutation.
Pfizer Inc. today announced that its Phase 3 EMBRACA trial of patients with reproductive BRCA1 / 2 positive locally advanced and / or metastatic breast cancer has demonstrated excellent progression-free survival