Critical Outcome Technologies Inc. (COTI) (TSX Venture: COT)announced more positive results today from animal experiments carried out at a prominent Canadian cancer research facility. This new series of experiments adds to the impressive data package for COTI-2, demonstrating efficacy both as a single agent and in combination with current first line therapies, as well as low toxicity in several different animal models of human cancers.
This most recent study was designed to determine first, the effectiveness of oral COTI-2 as a single agent, second, the effectiveness of COTI-2 in combination with Abraxane, a standard first line therapy for advanced pancreatic cancer, and third, the toxicity of chronically administered oral COTI-2 as a single agent and in combination with Abraxane in an animal model of human pancreatic cancer (PANC-1). The following results provide strong evidence for the continued development of COTI-2 in combination with conventional single agent therapy for the treatment of pancreatic cancer:
- COTI-2 is effective as a single agent in an animal model of human pancreatic cancer.
- COTI-2 plus Abraxane was significantly more effective than Abraxane as a single agent and this result was observed by day 28 of the study.
- The combination treatment group receiving COTI-2 plus Abraxane responded earlier than the Abraxane alone.
- Complete tumor regressions were observed more frequently in the combination treatment groups than with single agent Abraxane.
- At the conclusion of the study mean tumor volumes in the Abraxane only treated animals were
trending higher while mean tumor volumes in the combination treatment group were trending lower.
- Chronic oral treatment with COTI-2 as a single agent or in combination with Abraxane was well tolerated with no treatment deaths or observable toxicity over the duration of the study.