AZD3514 Fails to Live up to Preclinical Promise in CRPC at ASCO 2013
AZD3514 is a novel Selective Androgen Receptor Down-Regulating Drug (SARD) that showed early preclinical promise for the treatment of Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC).
However the development of this drug in advanced prostate cancer has been terminated by AstraZeneca according to Dr Aurelius Omlin, a Clinical Research Fellow at The Royal Marsden Hospital who presented clinical data on AZD3514 at the 2013 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago.
I previously wrote about the promising preclinical data for AZD3514 presented by Sarah Loddick at the 2012 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and sometimes drugs when they transition to the clinic just don’t live up to their promise.
As Sally Church, PhD