EAST SETAUKET, N.Y., Aug. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: LIXT) announced today that lead compounds from each of two different types of drugs being developed as potential treatment for specific types of brain cancers have activity against human pancreatic cancers in a mouse model.

Dr. John S. Kovach, President and CEO of Lixte, said, "Lixte previously reported that lead compounds from each of two different classes of pharmacologic agents have significant inhibitory activity against several types of human cancers in the test tube and against brain cancers in animal models. We have now found that two different lead compounds also have statistically significant activity against human pancreatic cancer cells growing in mice. These are early studies and there is no evidence that these drugs are able to eliminate pancreatic cancers but rather slow their growth. We are encouraged, however, that two classes of our drugs have activity against this devastating cancer in addition to glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and most malignant form of brain cancer."

About Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc.:

Lixte Biotechnology Holdings, Inc. is a cancer therapeutics and diagnostics company. Founded as a biomarker-diagnostics company in 2005, Lixte develops new chemotherapy drugs targeting molecular abnormalities of common human cancers.

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