Solna,
“It is great progress to have the first patient dosed in the Paccal Vet trial as this represents another important milestone towards demonstrating that Paccal Vet could be a suitable treatment option for dogs suffering from this severe cancer type where there are no approved drugs available. It is encouraging to see the great interest from study sites, and we anticipate that study enrollment will accelerate from now on,” said
The study will include four treatment cycles of Paccal Vet (paclitaxel micellar) and it is planned to investigate two cohorts. Each cohort is planned to include a maximum of 23 patients. The study will be conducted at six clinical sites in
If promising results in either cohort are shown, the study will be followed by a pivotal study designed to confirm the initial findings of this pilot study and to gather further evidence on the safety and efficacy of Paccal Vet in dogs with splenic hemangiosarcoma.
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About hemangiosarcoma in dogs
Hemangiosarcoma is one of the most common malignant cancers in dogs and is associated with a poor prognosis, with less than 10 percent of dogs surviving 12 months. The number of dogs diagnosed with hemangiosarcoma annually in the US and
Treatment options for hemangiosarcoma include surgery and, for some of the dogs, an unapproved adjuvant chemotherapy. The median survival time for dogs with hemangiosarcoma of the spleen undergoing surgery alone is approximately 1-3 months, depending on the stage/seriousness of the disease. Chemotherapeutic agents are used to manage residual metastatic disease after surgery. The most common chemotherapy program in use today can extend survival with hemangiosarcoma of the spleen by 2-4 months.
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