Safety evaluation of olaparib for treating ovarian cancer
Bibliographic record
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Olaparib (Lynparza®) is an oral, small molecule, poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor that has become the first 'personalized' therapy available for patients with BRCA mutation-positive ovarian cancer (OC). A capsule formulation of the drug has recently received approval for use in this population for platinum-sensitive recurrent disease for maintenance therapy following platinum-based chemotherapy in Europe and as third- or fourth-line platinum-sensitive therapy in the USA. AREAS COVERED: This article reviews the development of olaparib in OC with a focus on safety evaluation. Data are based on published literature and reports available from the olaparib development program database. EXPERT OPINION: Oral olaparib 400 mg twice daily has acceptable tolerability when administered as maintenance monochemotherapy in women with relapsed OC. The common toxicities - nausea/vomiting, fatigue and anemia - are mild or moderate in severity and appear consistent across subgroups (BRCA carriers/wild-type). Though the risk is low, long-term monitoring of patients is warranted to determine the potential risk for hematological complications such as anemia, myelodysplastic syndrome or acute myeloid leukemia.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".