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Athenex Announces Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative Reports Positive Trial Result of I-SPY2 Trial for Oral Paclitaxel in Combination with PD-1 and Carboplatin in Neoadjuvant Breast Cancer
December 20 2022 - 08:15AM
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Athenex, Inc., (NASDAQ: ATNX), a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel therapies for the treatment of cancer and related conditions announced that collaborators at the Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative reported today that the Company’s oral paclitaxel plus encequidar in combination with a PD-1 inhibitor and carboplatin has graduated in the triple-negative subgroup of high-risk early-stage breast cancer. Oral paclitaxel, relative to intravenous paclitaxel, was associated with less neuropathy and was not associated with an increase in febrile neutropenia. Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative anticipates presenting these results at upcoming national meetings in Q2 of 2023.
“We are very pleased that the Oral Paclitaxel combination regimen graduated from this prestigious program which has brought exciting and innovative treatments to neoadjuvant breast cancer patients. This study confirms our finding of less neuropathy for Oral Paclitaxel compared to intravenous paclitaxel in our metastatic breast cancer study. It’s reassuring to see that Oral Paclitaxel regimen was not associated with increased febrile neutropenia relative to the intravenous paclitaxel regimen in a well-conducted U.S. study,” said Dr. Johnson Lau, Chief Executive Officer of Athenex. “We will explore different opportunities to maximize the value of Oral Paclitaxel.”

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About Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative

Quantum Leap Healthcare Collaborative is a 501c(3) charitable organization established in 2005 as a collaboration between medical researchers at University of California, San Francisco and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Our mission is to integrate high-impact research with clinical processes and systems technology, resulting in improved data management and information systems, greater access to clinical trial matching and sponsorship, and greater benefit to providers, patients and researchers. Our goal is to improve and save lives. Quantum Leap provides operational, financial, and regulatory oversight to I-SPY. For more information, visit https://www.quantumleaphealth.org/.

About the I-SPY TRIALs

The I-SPY TRIAL (Investigation of Serial studies to Predict Your Therapeutic Response with Imaging And moLecular analysis 2) (I-SPY 2 TRIAL) was designed to rapidly screen promising experimental treatments and identify those most effective in specific patient subgroups based on molecular characteristics (biomarker signatures). The trial is a unique collaborative effort by a consortium that includes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), industry, patient advocates, philanthropic sponsors, and clinicians from 16 major U.S. cancer research ce