The NHS has approved the use of a drug which could benefit hundreds of patients with breast cancer and prostate cancer.
About 550 men with advanced prostate cancer, and 300 women with HER2-negative early breast cancer will be eligible for the new drug each year in England Men with advanced prostate cancer and women with HER2-negative early breast cancer who are at high risk of the disease returning will be able to access olaparib through the NHS in England.
Clinical trials have shown that olaparib, also known as Lynparza and manufactured by pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, can extend advanced prostate cancer patients’ lives by ‘an average of six months’, NHS England said.Meanwhile, the targeted therapy has been shown to reduced the risk of the BRCA-mutant, HER2-negative early breast cancer from returning within four years by nearly a third, it added.
Experts at the Institute of Cancer Research described the decision as ‘life-changing’ and say the medicine gives a chance for patients to live longer and healthier lives.
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