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A combination of an oral drug, called sorafenib, and a method for injecting microbeads of chemotherapy directly into tumors has been proven safe for liver cancer patients and may improve outcomes for those who have these fast-growing, deadly tumors whose numbers are on the rise in the U.S. Reporting in the Sept. 12 online version of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Johns Hopkins investigators tested the combination in 35 patients with advanced, inoperable liver cancer. Both sorafenib and...
Breast cancer cells that mutate to resist drug treatment survive by establishing tiny pumps on their surface that reject the drugs as they penetrate the cell membrane – making the cancer insensitive to chemotherapy drugs even after repeated use. Researchers have found a new way to break that resistance and shut off the pumps by genetically altering those breast cancer cells to forcibly activate a heat-shock protein called Hsp27. This protein regulates several others, including the...
SEATTLE, Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. ("CTI") (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) today announced that a second independent radiology assessment of response and progression endpoint data from CTI's PIX301 clinical trial of pixantrone confirmed the statistical robustness of the PIX301 efficacy data that was previously submitted by CTI to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") in CTI's new drug application ("NDA") for pixantrone. This second independent assessment was...
QUÉBEC CITY, Sept. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS) (TSX: AEZ) (the "Company"), today announced positive interim data for the Phase 1 portion of its ongoing Phase 1/2 study in castration and taxane-resistant prostate cancer with its targeted cytotoxic luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) analog, AEZS-108. The data were presented by Jacek Pinski, M.D, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center of the...
Encouraging data observed in overall survival and tolerability Company has requested Parallel Scientific Advice from FDA and EMA for pivotal trial QUÉBEC CITY, Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS) (TSX: AEZ) (the "Company") earlier today, presented positive final Phase 2 efficacy and safety data for its targeted cytotoxic luteinizing hormone releasing hormone (LHRH) analog, AEZS-108, in advanced endometrial cancer. The trial, chaired by Prof....
SEATTLE, Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. ("CTI") (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) today announced that it has submitted its response to the Day 120 List of Outstanding Issues to the European Medicines Agency's (the "EMA") Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use ("CHMP") in regards to CTI's Marketing Authorization Application for pixantrone (the "MAA") to treat relapsed or refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ("NHL"). With this submission, CTI expects to receive a...
Enrollment in Phase 1 Study of MM-302 in HER2 Positive Breast Cancer Patients Initiated by Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) August 08, 2011 Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase I clinical trial of MM-302, a nanotherapeutic encapsulation of doxorubicin with attached antibodies that target the ErbB2 (HER2) receptor. The Phase 1 study in patients with advanced ErbB2 positive breast cancer is designed to evaluate the...
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq: NKTR) today announced that the European Medicines Agency Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) has issued a positive opinion on its application for orphan medicinal product status for the company's lead oncology candidate, NKTR-102, for the treatment of women with ovarian cancer. "There is a significant unmet need for additional treatments to address ovarian cancer," said Carlo DiFonzo, PhD, Vice President of...
SEATTLE, June 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. ("CTI") (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) announced the publication of results posted in the online journal of Cancer of a Phase I-II study that evaluated the safety and efficacy of pixantrone when used in combination with fludarabine, dexamethasone and rituximab ("FPD-R") replacing mitoxantrone in the standard FND-R regimen with FPD-R among 28 patients with relapsed or refractory indolent non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ("INHL"). The Phase I-II...
SEATTLE, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. ("CTI") (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) today announced that it met with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (the "FDA") Division of Oncology Drug Products (the "DODP"). The meeting provided a pathway for re-submitting CTI's New Drug Application (the "NDA") for pixantrone for relapsed or refractory aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma ("NHL") including the potential for accelerated approval based on the PIX301 study results. This...
