Noxopharm Alliance With GenesisCare
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? New clinical alliance with GenesisCare to offer combined therapy of Veyonda? and 177Lu-PSMA
177Lu-PSMA is used as a treatment for late stage prostate cancer patients
? Both agents to be offered in a compassionate use program in Australia
? Combination therapy may be beneficial in boosting the response to 177Lu-PSMA
Sydney, 18th February 2020: Noxopharm (ASX: NOX) is pleased to announce a clinical alliancewith oncology services provider GenesisCare to offer a compassionate access program with Noxopharm?s novel lead product candidate, Veyonda?, for patients with advanced, treatmentresistant, metastatic prostate cancer (mCRPC) being treated with theranostics. The alliance formalises a program under which Noxopharm has been making Veyonda? available through GenesisCare for compassionate use in combination with 177Lu-PSMA therapy for mCRPC patients in?Australia. Following promising clinical outcomesfrom the compassionate use program
and early clinical research, the two companies have formalised an arrangement to make the therapy available for use in patients with few treatment alternatives.
GenesisCare is one of the largest private providers of oncology services in Australia and Europe, offering a range of treatments including radiation therapy, chemotherapy, palliative radiation and nuclear medicine (theranostics). Professor Nat Lenzo, Clinical Director of Theranostics at GenesisCare and Clinical Professor at Curtin University said: ?Prostate cancer is the most common cancer among men in Australia, yet treatment options for advanced metastatic prostate cancer remain limited. Theranostics is
offering new hope for late stage prostate cancer patients, many of whom have exhausted conventional treatment options such as chemotherapy. While further studies are required, we are seeing encouraging results from the combination of Lu-PSMA and Veyonda? in select patients requiring additional treatment effects and are grateful for Noxopharm?s support to increase
access to this combined therapy for suitable patients.?
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About 177Lu-PSMA
PSMA is a protein (prostate surface membrane antigen) expressed on prostate cancer cells in about 85-90% of men with mCRPC. In management of advanced prostate cancer, prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-based compounds (ligands), 68Gallium PSMA and 177Lutetium PSMA, are the most commonly used 'theranostic pair' for detection and treatment of metastatic
disease respectively. The PSMA protein is over-expressed on prostate cancer cells and has been the subject of numerous studies highlighting its suitability as a diagnostic and therapeutic agent. 177Lutetium is a radioisotope used in prostate cancer due its physical properties which facilitate tumour tissue death while avoiding unwanted effects on healthy tissue.
About Veyonda?
Veyonda? is a suppository dosage form of idronoxil, a first-in-class inhibitor of sphingosine-1- phosphate (S1P). S1P is a key secondary messenger in cells, with dual roles of activating major pro-survival signalling pathways, and regulating immune cell trafficking in tissues. Many solid cancers over-express S1P, supporting unregulated tumour growth and suppressing immune cell populations and activities in tumours. By inhibiting this over-expression, idronoxil acts as both a radio-sensitiser and chemo-sensitiser, and as an immunotherapy, intended to restore immune function to tumours.
About the Compassionate Use Program
In Australia, access to emerging theranostics treatment such as 177Lu-PSMA and Veyonda? are via active clinical trials or with authorisation by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Special Access Scheme (SAS), a scheme for compassionate access to medicines prior to their registration.
About Noxopharm
Noxopharm is a clinical-stage Australian drug development company with offices in Sydney and New York. The Company has a primary focus on the development of Veyonda? and is the major shareholder in non-oncology drug development company, Nyrada Inc. (ASX:NYR)
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About GenesisCare
GenesisCare is one of the largest private providers of oncology and cardiology services in
Australia, the U.K. and Spain with 3,000 healthcare professionals and support staff across more
than 150 GenesisCare centres. GenesisCare sees 160,000 people annually and carries out more
than 350,000 radiation therapy treatments every year, along with treatment options including
chemotherapy and theranostics. The organisation expects to more than double its reach in 2020,
with the acquisition of a major U.S. oncology provider under way. www.genesiscare.com
The GenesisCare theranostics team is committed to developing and using targeted molecular
diagnostic imaging and therapeutic agents for the diagnosis and treatment of cancers, with a
focus on cancers which are difficult to treat. For details on available locations
visit genesiscare.com/au/theranostics/
GenesisCare Clinical Media Enquiries: GenesisCare Corporate Media Enquiries:
Bronte Kerr Lauren Coleman
M: +61 428 298 121 T: +61 413 254 545
E: Bronte.Kerr@genesiscare.com E: Lauren.Coleman@genesiscare.com
Graham Kelly, CEO and Chairman of Noxopharm has approved the release of this document to the market.
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