18 May 2016

AstraZeneca today announced that Lynparza (olaparib) in combination with paclitaxel chemotherapy, compared with paclitaxel chemotherapy alone, did not meet the primary endpoint of overall survival (OS) in the Phase III GOLD trial in advanced gastric cancer patients, in either the overall population or patients whose tumour tested negative for Ataxia-Telangectasia Mutated (ATM) protein. Whilst there was a numerical survival trend in the Lynparza plus paclitaxel arm, it did not meet statistical significance.

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