Latest Tumor hypoxia Stories
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 16, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:THLDD), today announced that it has initiated a Phase 1/2 clinical trial of TH-302 in combination with doxorubicin in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma. TH-302 is a proprietary Hypoxia-Activated Prodrug (HAP) that specifically targets tumor hypoxia. "The treatment of soft tissue sarcomas continues to be a difficult challenge. New therapeutic and novel agents are required to improve the...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 12, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:THLD), today announced that it has initiated a clinical trial of TH-302 in combination with various chemotherapeutic agents in patients with advanced solid tumors. TH-302 is a proprietary Hypoxia-Activated Prodrug (HAP) that specifically targets tumor hypoxia. "Targeting tumor hypoxia is an exciting area of cancer research, and may offer great promise to patients with a wide variety of cancers,"...
Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: PRW), a bio-pharmaceutical company developing proprietary polysaccharide-based therapeutic compounds in the treatment of cancer and fibrosis, today announced that a pre-Investigational New Drug (IND) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") is scheduled for October to present the clinical development plan for a anti-hypoxia drug to be used in combination with DAVANAT(R) and 5-FU to treat advanced solid tumors, including head and neck, breast...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 24, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:THLD), today announced that Herbert Hurwitz, M.D. has joined the Company's Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Dr. Hurwitz is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center and a medical oncologist at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. "Tumor hypoxia is a promising area that is gaining a great deal of attention among the medical research community," said Herbert Hurwitz, M.D....
Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX: PRW), a biopharmaceutical company developing proprietary polysaccharide-based therapeutic compounds in the treatment of cancer and fibrosis, has requested a pre-Investigational New Drug (IND) meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") to define the regimen for an Oxygen-based product (EZ-646) to be used with Galactomannan-C (DAVANAT(R)) and Fluorouracil (5-FU) to treat all solid tumors, including new indications such as head & neck and breast...
