Entries by Renee Hansen

2019 ASH: Landmark Response and Survival Analyses from 102 MDS and CMML Patients Treated with Guadecitabine in a Phase 2 Study Showing That Maximum Response and Survival Is Best Achieved with Adequate Treatment Duration

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View Poster Abstract # 2957 – Landmark Response and Survival Analyses from 102 MDS and CMML Patients Treated with Guadecitabine in a Phase 2 Study Showing That Maximum Response and Survival Is Best Achieved with Adequate Treatment Duration Authors: Michael R. Savona, MD1, Hagop M. Kantarjian, MD2, Gail J. Roboz, MD3, Casey L. O’Connell, MD4, […]

2019 ASH: Results from a Global Randomized Phase 3 Study of Guadecitabine (G) Vs Treatment Choice (TC) in 815 Patients with Treatment Naïve (TN) AML Unfit for Intensive Chemotherapy (IC) ASTRAL-1 Study: Analysis By Number of Cycles

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View Poster Abstract #2591 Results from a Global Randomized Phase 3 Study of Guadecitabine (G) Vs Treatment Choice (TC) in 815 Patients with Treatment Naïve (TN) AML Unfit for Intensive Chemotherapy (IC) ASTRAL-1 Study: Analysis By Number of Cycles   Authors: Authors: Gail J. Roboz, MD1, Hartmut Döhner, MD2, Marco Gobbi, MD3*, Patricia L. Kropf, […]

2019 EORTC: Preliminary results of ASTX660, a novel non-peptidomimetic cIAP1/2 and XIAP antagonist, in 118 patients with solid tumors or lymphoma

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View Poster Preliminary results of ASTX660, a novel non-peptidomimetic cIAP1/2 and XIAP antagonist, in 118 patients with solid tumors or lymphoma Abstract Background: ASTX660 is an oral, novel nonpeptidomimetic, small-molecule antagonist of cellular/X-linked inhibitors of apoptosis proteins (cIAP1/2 and XIAP). ASTX660 is currently being evaluated in a first-in-human phase 1‒2 study in patients (pts) with […]

Xiao, et al. “Dual Antagonist of cIAP/XIAP ASTX660 Sensitizes HPV−and HPV+ Head and Neck Cancers to TNFα, TRAIL, and Radiation Therapy”

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Click link to view article https://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/early/2019/09/20/1078-0432.CCR-18-3802 Abstract Purpose: Human papillomavirus–negative (HPV−) head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) harbor frequent genomic amplification of Fas-associated death domain, with or without concurrent amplification of Baculovirus inhibitor of apoptosis repeat containing (BIRC2/3) genes encoding cellular inhibitor of apoptosis proteins 1/2 (cIAP1/2). Antagonists targeting cIAP1 have been reported to […]

Astex Pharmaceuticals announces that its novel, oral hypomethylating agent ASTX727 has been granted orphan drug designation for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes (including chronic myelomonocytic leukemia) by the US FDA

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Pleasanton, CA, September 3rd, 2019. Astex Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., based in Tokyo, Japan, announces that the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug designation for the company’s orally administered fixed-dose combination of cedazuridine and decitabine (ASTX727 or C-DEC) for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes […]

Savona et al., An oral fixed-dose combination of decitabine and cedazuridine in myelodysplastic syndromes: a multicentre, open-label, dose-escalation, phase 1 study

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View further details Savona et al, “Savona et al., An oral fixed-dose combination of decitabine and cedazuridine in myelodysplastic syndromes: a multicentre, open-label, dose-escalation, phase 1 study”, The Lancet Haematology, Volume 6, Issue 4, e194 – e203  DOI:10.1016/S2352-3026(19)30030-4 Abstract BACKGROUND: Decitabine, a DNA methyltransferase 1 inhibitor or DNA hypomethylating compound, is not readily orally bioavailable […]

de Witte, Effective oral hypomethylating drugs in intermediate-risk or high-risk myelodysplasia: a breakthrough?

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Click for link to article: “Effective oral hypomethylating drugs in intermediate-risk or high-risk myelodysplasia: a breakthrough?” The Lancet Haematology, Volume 6, Issue 4, PE170-E171, DOI 10.1016/S2352-3026(19)30025-0•   Curative treatment options for patients with intermediate-risk or high-risk myelodysplasia are intensive chemotherapy and allogeneic stem cell transplantation, but most patients with myelodysplasia are too frail to be […]