YM BioSciences says data on lead drug shows superior side-effect profile
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - YM BioSciences Inc, (News) an AIM-listed cancer specialist, is presenting data on its lead drug, nimotuzumab, which it says shows how it has better side effects than rivals.
Chief executive David Allan said: 'This research describes the distinct molecular properties of nimotuzumab responsible for its more favourable side-effect profile which differentiates our drug from all of the other currently marketed anti-EGFR antibodies.
'The ongoing 59-patient Phase II study in colorectal cancer of nimotuzumab with irinotecan confirms the low level of interaction between nimotuzumab and normal tissue with less than a quarter of the patients exhibiting skin toxicity and in all of whom it was both mild and transitory.
'These data further support the value proposition for our lead drug -- nimotuzumab has the potential to become best-in-class in the enormous market for EGFR-targeting therapies.'
The research examines nimotuzumab compared to two similar drugs, cetuximab and panitumumab.
Nimotuzumab is currently being evaluated in two Phase III trials as a first-line treatment for brain tumours, a Phase II/III trial as a treatment for pancreatic cancer and a phase II study in colorectal cancer.
The data will be presented today in a poster at the American Association for Cancer Research Centennial Conference on Translational Cancer Medicine 2008, held in Monterey, California.
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