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William H. Bradley, MD, on Ovarian Cancer: 5-Year Follow-up on Maintenance Olaparib

SGO 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting on Womens Cancer

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William H. Bradley, MD, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, discusses results from the SOLO-1 trial on maintenance olaparib after first-line platinum-based chemotherapy for patients with newly diagnosed advanced ovarian cancer and a BRCA mutation. Almost half of the patients treated with olaparib in the study were disease-free at 5 years, vs 20% of those treated with placebo (ID# 10224).



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