RE: New prostate cancer drug that doesnt activate till it reaches tumour1 Mar 2026 11:37
Hi Van, I have been in this stock for 6 years and have been fortunate to trade the up moves enough times successfully, to be in overall a pretty good profit.
Historically AVCT has promised great things and commercially delivered nothing.
The current trial is 5 years in which for a phase 1 level is bordering on farcical, however they are trying something novel. Reported results have all been encouraging but has been contradicted by a falling SP over the same period. This contradictory set of events has made many nervous and as I say with the almost universal failure of any of its tech to be commercialised is understandable.
The next/new trial does look to be the real game changer (again! There is certain amount of deJa Vue here), and as its due to start in the next few weeks it is starting to generate some PI interest. What makes this potentially more exciting is that it comes off the back of AVA6k and it looks very much that some very important and crucial observations/challenges have been overcome and that this new trial will benefit from whats gone before.
The "downside" is that there is not enough money to see this through or even the current trial is to phase 2. The bullish take is that new funding will come externally and won't be dilutive and the worry is that it will!
I don't think anybody thinks at this stage that funding won't happen, but as I say, just how it will be achieved.
Certainly timewise, this is a reasonable time of entry because you would think that within the next 9-12 months the die really will be cast one way or the other. Chartwise it is likely to rise from here with a 62/64p floor support.
The potential is at this stage impossible to tell, the best case is that it is a multi- billion $ novel therapy for many types of cancer. The down side is for some reason it fails, although there have already been good results on salivary gland cancer which has no standard treatment currently, so you would think there is some vale for AVCT on that one cancer alone, however, before that can happen larger patient trials would likely be needed and we are back to funding again.
I think right now is the best and most promising time for AVCt to deliver on what has so far been tantalisingly just out of reach.
What is clear is that results (as always) will define the outcome and those results, whatever they will be, are time-wise, not that far away now.