Poniard Announces Positive Preliminary Efficacy and Safety Data From Ongoing Phase 2 Trial of Picoplatin in First-Line Treatment of Colorec...( - Phase 2 Data To Be Presented Along ...),Health

- Phase 2 Data To Be Presented Along With Updated Phase 1 Colorectal Cancer

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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. and CHICAGO, June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Poniard Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PARD), a biopharmaceutical company focused on oncology, today announced positive preliminary results from its ongoing randomized Phase 2 clinical trial in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC) and updated results from an ongoing Phase 1 CRC trial. Preliminary data suggest that picoplatin given in combination with 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin (FOLPI) and oxaliplatin given in combination with 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin (FOLFOX) may have similar anti-tumor activity in metastatic CRC.

The Company will present the Phase 1 and 2 picoplatin data (abstract #4100) in the General Poster Session during the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) at McCormick Place in Chicago. Picoplatin, the Company's lead product candidate, is a new generation platinum chemotherapy agent with the potential to become a platform product addressing multiple indications, combinations and formulations for the treatment of multiple solid tumor indications.

"The comparison of picoplatin and oxaliplatin in combination with 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin has provided encouraging preliminary results," said Robert De Jager, M.D., chief medical officer of Poniard. "These data support our strategy of developing picoplatin as a preferred platinum for the first-line treatment of metastatic CRC. The ongoing Phase 2 trial could support advancement of picoplatin into a registration trial."

Phase 2 CRC Study Preliminary Results

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