Showing posts with label docetaxel. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Synta announces results from Ganetespib Phase 2b trial on NSCLC

Published on September 29, 2012 at 5:14 AM 

Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. (NASDAQ: SNTA) today announced results from an interim analysis of the Phase 2b portion of the GALAXY trial, a global, randomized, multi-center Phase 2b/3 study designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the Company's lead Hsp90 inhibitor, ganetespib, as second-line treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The results showed good tolerability for the combination of ganetespib (G) and docetaxel (D), as well as meaningful improvements in overall survival (OS) in adenocarcinoma patients receiving docetaxel plus ganetespib compared to those receiving docetaxel alone. The results were presented by Suresh Ramalingam, MD, Professor, Hematology & Medical Oncology, and Director, Translational Thoracic Malignancies Program, of the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, in a poster session at the European Society for Medical Oncology 2012 Congress in Vienna, Austria. A copy of the poster is available at http://www.syntapharma.com/documents/Ganetespib_GALAXY_ESMO_2012_Poster.pdf.
The GALAXY trial is based on a two-stage, operationally adaptive design. The first-stage, randomized, open-label, 240-patient Phase 2b portion of the trial is enrolling Stage IIIB/IV NSCLC patients who have progressed following one prior line of therapy, and is designed to identify the patient population, defined by biomarker or other disease characteristic, for advancement into the Phase 3 portion of the trial.
An interim analysis was planned for when approximately 80% of the target 240 adenocarcinoma patients had been enrolled. A total of 187 patients were enrolled at the time of analysis, of which 172 patients had been entered into the clinical database at the time of data cutoff.
"The preliminary results from GALAXY indicate that the addition of ganetespib to docetaxel is well tolerated and may improve outcomes in patients compared to docetaxel alone," said Dr. Ramalingam, a Principal Investigator of the study. "This includes promising improvements in survival seen across the broad adenocarcinoma population as well as in key predefined patient populations. A well-tolerated combination regimen that extends survival associated with salvage therapy in NSCLC will meet a much awaited need to improve the current standard of care."
Targeting the dependence of cancer cell growth and proliferation pathways on the Hsp90 chaperone represents a new way to interrupt cancer cell signaling and reduce tumor aggressiveness. Hsp90 inhibition by ganetespib simultaneously inhibits multiple critical cancer-promoting pathways, including pathways responsible for tumor metastasis, angiogenesis, and resistance to conventional therapies.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

INTERESTING ARTICLES. GO TO THEM!

1.Plastin3 is a novel marker for circulating tumor cells undergoing the epithelial-mesenchymal transition and is associated with colorectal cancer prognosis

Cancer Research, 02/21/2013 

(APPARANTLY THIS IS NOT FOUND NATURALLY IN NORMAL BLOOD)

2Multicentre phase II trial of bevacizumab combined with docetaxel carboplatin for the neoadjuvant treatment of triple-negative breast cancer (KCSG BR-0905)
Annals of Oncology   02/06/2013STUDY COMPLETED IN KOREA



Monday, December 17, 2012

sCD163 and sTARC are disease response biomarkers for Hodgkin Lymphoma

sCD163 and sTARC are disease response biomarkers for Hodgkin lymphoma
As published in Clinical Cancer Research, combined sCD163 and sTARC are better markers of disease response in patients with Hodgkin Lymphoma undergoing first-line therapy than either marker alone. sCD163 reflected tumor burden during treatment, while sTARC was more significant upon completion of therapy.
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the expanded use of abiraterone acetate
( Zytiga, Janssen Biotech Inc) to first-line therapy for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC).
The drug, which decreases testosterone production, was approved in April 2011 as a second-line treatment after Docetaxel chemotherapy in the same population.
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PET/CT Agent Identifies Aggressive Renal Cancers Noninvasively
Screening patients with renal masses with iodine-124-girentuximab had both a high specificity and sensitivity for identifying clear cell renal cell carcinoma, according to the results of a newly published open-label multicenter study.
(FROM CANCER NET)