On April 26, 2016 Tokai Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: TKAI), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing innovative therapies for prostate cancer and other hormonally driven diseases, reported an oral presentation on galeterone at the 2016 American Urological Association (AUA) Annual Meeting in San Diego (Press release, Tokai Pharmaceuticals, APR 26, 2016, View Source;p=RssLanding&cat=news&id=2161338 [SID:1234511407]). Galeterone, Tokai’s lead product candidate, is being developed for the treatment of men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.
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The presentation, titled "Galeterone shows anti-tumor activity in multiple pre-clinical models that express androgen receptor splice variants, supporting correlative patient data seen in ARMOR2" (abstract number PD32-07), will be presented on Sunday, May 8, from 4:30 – 4:40 p.m. PDT in room 30DE, as part of the session, "Prostate Cancer: Advanced (including Drug Therapy) III." The presenting author is Vincent C.O. Njar, Ph.D., Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacology; Head of the Medicinal Chemistry Section, Center for Biomolecular Therapeutics; and Member of the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. Dr. Njar is a co-inventor of galeterone.
Additional information, including the presentation schedule and full abstracts, may be found at www.aua2016.org. A copy of the presentation will be available on the "Publications & Presentations" page of Tokai’s website, www.tokaipharmaceuticals.com.
About Galeterone
Galeterone is an oral small molecule that utilizes the established pathways, including CYP17 enzyme and androgen receptor inhibition, of the current second-generation hormonal therapies abiraterone and enzalutamide. Galeterone also introduces a distinct third mechanism – androgen receptor degradation – that decreases the sensitivity of androgen receptors to androgen activity, thus leading to reductions in tumor growth. Tokai is developing galeterone for the treatment of patients with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). ARMOR3-SV, the company’s pivotal Phase 3 study of galeterone in treatment-naive mCRPC patients whose prostate tumors express the AR-V7 splice variant, is evaluating whether administration of galeterone results in a statistically significant increase in radiographic progression-free survival as compared to enzalutamide. Tokai is also evaluating galeterone in mCRPC patients who have shown resistance following treatment with second-generation hormonal agents. Tokai has worldwide development and commercialization rights to galeterone.