Veliparib with First-Line Chemotherapy and as Maintenance Therapy in Ovarian Cancer

Robert L Coleman1, Gini F Fleming1, Mark F Brady1

  • 1From the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston (R.L.C.); University of Chicago Medicine (G.F.F.) and the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University (D.C.), Chicago, and AbbVie, North Chicago (D.M.S., B.A.B., S.B., C.K.R., P.J.A., M.H.D.) - all in Illinois; NRG Oncology Statistical and Data Center, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo (M.F.B.), and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York (K.B.-M., C.A.) - both in New York; University of Washington-Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle (E.M.S.); Lillebaelt University Hospital of Southern Denmark, Vejle, and the University of Southern Denmark, Odense (K.D.S.); Prince of Wales Clinical School, University of New South Wales and Royal Hospital for Women (M.F.), and the Northern Cancer Institute (S.B.-H.), Sydney; Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo (A. Okamoto), and Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya (M.M.) - both in Japan; Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City (K.N.M.); Kaplan Medical Center, Rehovot, Israel (N.E.B.-B.); Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (T.L.W.); Texas Oncology, U.S. Oncology Research Network, Fort Worth (N.G.C.); Vall d'Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona (A. Oaknin); Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, RI (P.A.D.); Penn Medicine, Philadelphia (M.A.M.); University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea (J.-H.N.); O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham (C.A.L.); Oxford University Hospitals, Oxford, United Kingdom (S.N.); Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis (A.R.H.); Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Francisco (R.D.L., M.A.B.); and H.M. Hospitales-Centro Integral Oncológico H.M. Clara Campal, Madrid (J.G.-D.).

Summary

Adding veliparib to initial chemotherapy significantly improved progression-free survival in high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma patients. Veliparib maintenance therapy showed the most benefit, though side effects like anemia and thrombocytopenia increased.

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