Food For Ovarian Cancer Patients. Eligible patients were aged 18 years or older with an eastern cooperative oncology group performance status at baseline of 0 1 and histologically confirmed relapsed high grade serous ovarian cancer or high grade endometrioid cancer including primary peritoneal or fallopian tube cancer. Patients were randomly assigned 2 1 to olaparib 300.
The ovarian cancer cohort currently enrolling includes patients with platinum resistant disease and have received 1 3 prior regimens or platinum sensitive patients that have received 2 3 prior. The food and drug administration s fda approval of zejula niraparib in may for the frontline maintenance treatment of adults with advanced epithelial ovarian fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer who are in complete or partial response to first line platinum based chemotherapy was exciting news for patients according to a. Ovarian cancer is a relatively uncommon type of cancer that arises from different types of cells within the ovary an almond shaped egg producing female reproductive organ.
The major genetic risk factor for ovarian cancer is a mutation in brca1 or brca2 genes or in dna mismatch repair genes which is present in 10 of ovarian cancer cases.
Patients were randomly assigned 2 1 to olaparib 300. Eligible patients were aged 18 years or older with an eastern cooperative oncology group performance status at baseline of 0 1 and histologically confirmed relapsed high grade serous ovarian cancer or high grade endometrioid cancer including primary peritoneal or fallopian tube cancer. People with hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer lynch syndrome and those with brca 1 and brca 2 genetic abnormalities are at increased risk. The most common ovarian cancers are known as epithelial ovarian cancers eoc or ovarian carcinoma.
