The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use adopted a positive opinion recommending approval a Type II variation for Rubraca (rucaparib), as a first-line maintenance treatment for all women with advanced ovarian cancer regardless of their BRCA mutation status, who have responded to first-line platinum-based chemotherapy.
Researchers have identified a “master regulator” gene, ZNFX1, that may act as a biomarker to help guide treatment in future clinical trials involving patients with therapy-resistant ovarian cancer, according to a study recently published in Cancer Research.
