Olaparib treatment for BRCA-mutant ovarian cancer with leptomeningeal disease

•Leptomeningeal disease occurs more commonly in BRCA-mutated ovarian cancer.•A clinically significant dose of olaprib is able to penetrate the leptomeninges.•Leptomeningeal metastases in a BRCA-mutated ovarian cancer responded to olaparib.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bangham, Madeleine, Goldstein, Robert, Walton, Henry, Ledermann, Jonathan A
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5081421/