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Novogen Limited drug could improve effectiveness of chemotherapy in children

Published: 04:00 14 Jul 2015 BST

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Novogen Limited (ASX:NRT, NASDAQ:NVGN) has completed a pre-clinical in vivo proof of concept study demonstrating its Anisina drug has the potential to improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy in children and reduce life-long side-effects.

The anti-tropomyosin drug significantly improved the efficacy of standard of care microtubule targeting compound, vincristine, in an animal model of neuroblastoma.

It shows that animals can be dosed with a proprietary formulation of Anisina in combination with the standard of care and recapitulate in an animal model of neuroblastoma the same effect as observed in the test tube.

Neuroblastoma is a cancer that is most frequently observed in the young with more than 90% of diagnoses occurring in children under 5 years of age.

It is considered to be the most common solid tumour in children outside the brain.



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