ALISCA-Lung1 Ph 2 Trial of Alisertib initiated in SCLC
“Treatment options for patients with small cell lung cancer that has progressed on or after platinum-based chemotherapy are limited, and there is an urgent need for new drugs to treat this patient population,” said Taofeek K. Owonikoko, MD, PhD, Marlene and Stewart Greenbaum Professor of Oncology in the Department of Medicine at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. “The results from the previous clinical trials of alisertib in small cell lung cancer suggest that the drug may represent a potentially promising treatment option for these patients and, more specifically, for patient subsets whose tumors harbor potential molecular markers that are likely associated with the clinical activity of an aurora kinase A inhibitor such as alisertib,” said Dr. Owonikoko.
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