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In the PTCL arm, 2 of 11 evaluable patients achieved an objective response including one CR and one PR, with best responses not yet determined in 2 patients whose treatment is ongoing. CuraGen today announced that based on a recent review of this data by the Company and the study investigators, the degree of activity observed in the first phase of this study meets the predefined criteria to expand enrollment of the PTCL arm to a total of 34 patients.

"We are very encouraged by the single agent activity demonstrated in both CTCL and PTCL, and intrigued by the rapidity with which most responses are observed, an important finding given the symptomatic and debilitating nature of both diseases as well as the unmet need that exists. We look forward to further characterizing the clinical benefit patients with T-cell lymphoma can receive from treatment with intravenous belinostat," commented Dr. Francine Foss, Principal Investigator and Professor of Medical Oncology, at Yale Cancer Center.

CLN-8: Phase Ib/II trial evaluating intravenous belinostat in combination with paclitaxel and carboplatin

Phase Ib dose-escalation results on 23 patients with advanced solid tumors were presented at ASCO and indicate that the combination of intravenous belinostat plus standard doses of carboplatin and paclitaxel are generally well tolerated. Two PRs (1 pancreatic and 1 rectal cancer) were noted and one patient with mixed mullerian cancer of ovarian origin achieved an 81% reduction in CA-125 levels. In addition, 11 patients achieved stable disease (SD), including one patient with bladder cancer (SD for 20 cycles), and one patient with carcinoma of unknown primary (SD for 17 cycles and ongoi
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