Targeted drug combo, cediranib plus olaparib, significantly increases progression-free survival in recurrent ovarian cancer
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Dr Liu talks to ecancertv at ASCO 2014 about the findings from a federally funded, NCI-sponsored phase II study which suggest that the combination of two investigational oral drugs, the PARP inhibitor olaparib and the anti-angiogenesis drug cediranib, is significantly more active against recurrent, platinum chemotherapy-sensitive disease or ovarian cancer related to mutations in BRCA genes than olaparib alone.
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