Axelar AB to present data from ongoing Phase I/II clinical trial of AXL1717

Nov 13 2009

Axelar AB today announced that promising data from the ongoing Phase I/II clinical trial concerning their lead anticancer product AXL1717, an insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) receptor inhibitor, will be presented next week at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The clinical trial is being conducted in Sweden on advanced-stage cancer patients with documented progressive solid tumors and no remaining treatment options. The first part of the trial has been successfully completed and showed that AXL1717 can be administered as a single-day BID treatment in very high doses without dose-limiting toxicity. The second part of the trial is ongoing and the patients are now being given AXL1717 daily for 7-28 days BID. Results so far show that AXL1717 can be taken in a multidose setting with good tolerability.

"We are very excited about our new clinical data on AXL1717 and pleased to be able to present them at this important scientific meeting" says Johan Harmenberg, CEO of Axelar AB. "Of particular interest is that even though the clinical trial so far was not designed to demonstrate efficacy, a number of patients show signs of tumor necrosis on PET (positron emission tomography). Targeting cancer cells with AXL1717 instead of conventional cytotoxic chemotherapy may become an effective and well-tolerated treatment alternative for cancer patients in the future".