QSAM Biosciences Expands its Study of CycloSam® in the Treatment of Bone Cancer; Opens Patient Enrollment at Key Chicago Center, Insight Hospital and Medical Center
Austin, TX, May 23, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QSAM Biosciences Inc. (OTCQB: QSAM), a company developing next generation therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals, including Samarium-153-DOTMP (CycloSam®), for the treatment of bone cancer and other diseases and conditions, today announces the addition of the Insight Research Institute at the Insight Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago, IL, as a clinical trial site approved to begin enrolling participants into the Phase 1 study evaluating CycloSam® in patients with multiple types of bone cancer that either originated in or has metastasized to the bone.
QSAM’s study is a multiple center, open label, dose escalation clinical trial intended to determine the maximum tolerated dose of CycloSam® in patients, as well as assess early efficacy signals. Patients with bone cancer that has metastasized from the breast, lungs, prostate or other organs, as well as patients with cancer that has originated in the bone such as osteosarcoma and Ewing’s Sarcoma – diseases that mostly affect children and young adults -- may be eligible.
"We are pleased to be working with the excellent team at Insight Hospital and Medical Center to continue the expansion of our drug development program for CycloSam® in the large population center of Chicago,” stated Douglas R. Baum, CEO and co-founder of QSAM. “We expect the addition of this fourth clinical trial site will help advance our study, and it also constitutes the initial site that will be serviced through our recently announced partnership with the leading nuclear pharmacy network, Radioisotope Life Sciences, RLS.”
“Metastatic bone cancer is often life threatening and remains an area of high unmet medical need for patients with limited treatment options that are often ineffective,” stated Mohammed T. Hussain, MD, an Oncologist and the Investigator at Insight Hospital and Medical Center. “Therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals like CycloSam® represent a novel and potentially important treatment option for patients suffering from this debilitating and deadly disease.”
