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ORLANDO, Fla., May 30 Data from the Phase III ZODIAC study in advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients, with the investigational drug vandetanib, were presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Orlando. Results show that the study met its primary endpoint, demonstrating that the addition of vandetanib to docetaxel resulted in a statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS), the length of time a patient lives without their cancer growing (hazard ratio [HR] 0.79, 97.58% CI 0.70-0.90; P<0.001. Median PFS: 14.0 weeks vs. 17.3 weeks, favoring vandetanib). Vandetanib is the first oral targeted therapy to show evidence of clinical benefits when added to chemotherapy in a Phase III study in second line advanced NSCLC(1).

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ZODIAC is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III study evaluating the combination of vandetanib 100mg with docetaxel versus docetaxel alone. The study enrolled 1391 patients previously treated with one prior anti-cancer therapy for advanced NSCLC.

Data from ZEAL(2), a smaller Phase III study also featured on this year's ASCO program, are supportive of ZODIAC although the primary endpoint did not reach statistical significance in the ZEAL study (hazard ratio [HR] 0.86, 97.58% CI 0.69-1.06; P=0.108. Median PFS: 11.9 weeks vs. 17.6 weeks, favouring vandetanib). The combination of vandetanib plus pemetrexed did show a positive trend in prolongation of PFS compared with pemetrexed alone.

ZEAL is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III study evaluating vandetanib 100mg plus pemetrexed versus pemetrexed alone. The study enrolled 534 patients previously treated with one prior anti-cancer therapy for advance
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