Antisoma Completes Patient Enrolment For Phase III NSCLC Trial

Antisoma has reported that the ATTRACT-1 phase III trial of ASA404 in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has reached its enrolment target of 1,200 patients.

ASA404 is a Tumour-Vascular Disrupting Agent (Tumour-VDA) that selectively disrupts established tumour vasculature, inhibits tumour blood flow, and causes extensive tumour necrosis.

Reportedly, the trial is the single pivotal registration study for the drug as a first-line treatment for squamous and non-squamous NSCLC, and is being conducted by Novartis, Antisoma’s development and commercialisation partner for ASA404.

Glyn Edwards, CEO of Antisoma said: Novartis has done an excellent job in rapidly completing recruitment into this very large trial of ASA404 in lung cancer. We can now be even more confident that the results will be available in time to support potential marketing applications in 2011.