Two trials led by Timothy A. Yap, associate professor of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics at MD Anderson Cancer Center, showed encouraging results for treating solid tumors with DNA damage response alterations using a combination of PARP and ATR inhibitors. Notably, anti-tumor activity was seen in patients with tumors that had previously shown resistance to PARP inhibitors or platinum-based therapies.
EC granted marketing authorization for Elahere (mirvetuximab soravtansine) for the treatment of adult patients with folate receptor-alpha positive, platinum-resistant high grade serous epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer who have received one to three prior systemic treatment regimens. Elahere is the first and only folate receptor alpha-directed antibody drug conjugate medicine approved in the EU, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Northern Ireland.
