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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2025

Continuous response to maintenance fuzuloparib for germline BRCA2- mutated metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma: a case report and literature review.

Chenyan Zhang, Pei Zhang, Ke Cheng, Dan Cao

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Chenyan Zhang *Division of Abdominal Tumor, Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biological Therapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Pei Zhang *Division of Abdominal Tumor, Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biological Therapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Ke ChengDivision of Abdominal Tumor, Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biological Therapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Dan CaoDivision of Abdominal Tumor, Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center and State Key Laboratory of Biological Therapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

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Abstract

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma with germline BRCA mutations (gBRCAm) represents a distinct molecular subtype with enhanced sensitivity to platinum-based chemotherapy and poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARP inhibitors). Fuzuloparib is a novel, potent, and orally bioavailable PARP inhibitor. Despite showing improved efficacy and a more favorable safety profile compared to olaparib in preclinical studies, clinical evidence for its application in pancreatic adenocarcinoma harboring gBRCAm remains limited. We report here a 33-year-old Asian woman with extensively metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma harboring a germline BRCA2 nonsense mutation who a durable response to fuzuloparib after NALIRIFOX chemotherapy. Her progression-free survival exceeded 15 months with ongoing fuzuloparib maintenance therapy for over 7 months. This case underscores the important role of biomarker-directed therapy in pancreatic adenocarcinoma and fuzuloparib may represent a potential PARP inhibitor option for maintenance treatment in pancreatic adenocarcinoma with gBRCAm. However, large-scale randomized controlled trials are needed to validate these results.

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gBRCA-mutationMetastasispancreatic cancerPARP inhibitorplatinum-based chemotherapy

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