RE: Myles11 May 2025 08:13
"Usual Myles flannel" from January 16th. Thanks for the reminder. There's more information in this one post than in the previous one thousand others.
"New data from Avacta's Phase 1a trial for #AVA6000, specifically focusing on 10 patients with salivary gland cancer ('SGC')
- Only 1 out of 10 patients experienced tumour progression - equating to a 90% disease control rate in this set of patients.
- 5 out of 10 patients experienced tumour shrinkage (1 partial, 4 minor).
- 6 patients remain on treatment.
These are P1a patients, and have been heavily pre-treated. This is vital to note, as pre-treated patients are usually much less responsive to further treatment.
Currently, "there is no standard of care for SGC once patients have developed distant metastasis, with a five year survival rate of approximately 43%."
It's also crucial to remember that - especially when used as a monotherapy - it is extremely rare for standard doxorubicin to yield complete responses for patients. Rather, it is used predominantly for disease control.
So, to summarize: even in extremely sick patients with advanced stage SGC, and who have very little (if any) treatment options available remaining to them, AVA6000 has prevented disease progression in 90% of cases.
In contrast, in treatment-naive patients with earlier stage SGC, there currently exists no standard-of-care.
Results should improve significantly for AVA6000, when used as a first-line therapy for those patients with earlier stage SGC.
It's now patently obvious (at least to me!) that AVA6000 is on for accelerated approval for the treatment of SGC.
And that's just the beginning for AVA6000. The Phase 1b commencing now is also running cohorts for triple negative breast cancer and soft tissue sarcoma.
If pre | CISION can transform the treatability of a certain cancer by modifying a chemotherapy that gained marketing authorization from the FDA over a half-century ago, just how much is it going to transform the wider oncology landscape when used to modify the most potent warheads on the market right now, such as exatecan (eyes on #AVA6103!!!) and MMAE?
Avacta is in possession of Paul Ehrlich's Magic Bullet."