NuCana Presents Encouraging Data on NUC-3373 in Colorectal Cancer at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics 2023 - Seite 2

Hugh S. Griffith, NuCana’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer, said: “We are delighted to have been able to showcase these data. For the first time, we have presented data from our lead program of NUC-3373 in second-line colorectal cancer from the NuTide:302 study, which has shown encouraging signs of efficacy and continues to demonstrate a favorable safety profile. Four out of seven patients who received fluoropyrimidine plus oxaliplatin-based therapy as a first-line treatment achieved a longer PFS on NUFIRI-bev in the second-line setting where PFS is typically five months shorter. This result gives us further confidence in our ongoing randomized Phase 2 NuTide:323 study.”

Mr. Griffith continued: “We also shared an update from NuTide:323 which is recruiting well with no new safety signals observed. We remain on track to fully enroll the study in the coming months and we look forward to sharing further updates from this study.”

About NuCana
NuCana is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on significantly improving treatment outcomes for patients with cancer by applying our ProTide technology to transform some of the most widely prescribed chemotherapy agents, nucleoside analogs, into more effective and safer medicines. While these conventional agents remain part of the standard of care for the treatment of many solid and hematological tumors, they have significant shortcomings that limit their efficacy and they are often poorly tolerated. Utilizing our proprietary technology, we are developing new medicines, ProTides, designed to overcome the key limitations of nucleoside analogs and generate much higher concentrations of anti-cancer metabolites in cancer cells. NuCana’s pipeline includes NUC-3373 and NUC-7738. NUC-3373 is a new chemical entity derived from the nucleoside analog 5-fluorouracil, a widely used chemotherapy agent. NUC-3373 is currently being evaluated in three ongoing clinical studies: a Phase 1b/2 study (NuTide:302) in combination with leucovorin, irinotecan or oxaliplatin, and bevacizumab in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer; a randomized Phase 2 study (NuTide:323) in combination with leucovorin, irinotecan, and bevacizumab for the second-line treatment of patients with advanced colorectal cancer; and a Phase 1b/2 modular study (NuTide:303) of NUC-3373 in combination with the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab for patients with advanced solid tumors and in combination with docetaxel for patients with lung cancer. NUC-7738 is a transformation of 3’-deoxyadenosine, a novel anti-cancer nucleoside analog. NUC-7738 is in the Phase 2 part of a Phase 1/2 study in patients with advanced solid tumors which is evaluating NUC-7738 as a monotherapy and in combination with pembrolizumab.