Showing posts with label castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Show all posts
Showing posts with label castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Show all posts

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

OGX-427 Improves PFS in Prostate Cancer | News | Drug Discovery and Development Magazine


In continuation of my update on OGX-427 

OncoGenex Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced data from a Phase 2 study of its investigational compound OGX-427 in chemotherapy-naive metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients. Preliminary results show a higher number of patients taking OGX-427 plus prednisone without disease progression at 12 weeks and with declines in prostate-specific antigen (PSA), compared with those taking prednisone alone.

Sixty-four of 72 planned patients have been randomized to the study and data on 42 patients [22 who received OGX-427 plus prednisone and 20 who received prednisone alone] are now available at or beyond the 12 week assessment time point. Highlights are as follows: