NetworkNewsWire Editorial Coverage: When it comes to cancer – a
disease that has been referred to as the “modern plague” - any
positive developments are good news indeed. In the ongoing battle
against cancer, companies like TapImmune, Inc. (TPIV)
(TPIV
Profile), Anavex Life
Sciences Corp. (AVXL), Propanc Health Group
Corporation (PPCH), Aquinox Pharmaceutical, Inc.
(AQXP) and Bellicum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(BLCM) are working hard to bring even more good news to
cancer patients and their families.
There was both good and bad news in the United States
Government’s latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of
Cancer (1), which covers the time period spanning
1975-2014. The good news: cancer death rates continue to decrease
in men, women and children for all major ethnic groups; the overall
rates of new cancers have decreased in men and stabilized in women;
and five-year survival rates have improved for most—but not
all—common types of cancer, including both early- and late-stage
disease. The bad news: death rates have increased for liver,
pancreas and brain cancers in men and for liver and uterine cancers
in women.
Fewer bad tidings and many more good are the aim of various
companies engaged in finding and developing new and innovative
means of treating cancer.
Some exciting cancer therapy advancements come from TapImmune, Inc. (TPIV), a leading
immuno-oncology company that provides pioneering T-cell vaccines
and novel immunotherapy platforms. TapImmune’s immunotherapies take
the unique approach of targeting both metastatic disease and
tumors. The primary cause of death among cancer patients is not the
primary tumor but metastatic disease, or the spreading of cancer to
untreatable areas of the body. TapImmune’s therapies have advanced
beyond the abilities of earlier vaccine approaches by treating both
tumors and metastatic diseases, and TapImmune’s work is further
distinguished by its approach of activating a patient’s own immune
system in fighting cancer. While the idea of enlisting the body’s
immune system to combat cancer is not a new one, recent and
dramatic breakthroughs by companies like TapImmune have brought
this concept to the forefront in an exciting way.
TapImmune’s next-generation technology is able to standalone as
a powerful therapy or be combined with other immunotherapies. The
company is currently developing two vaccines that merge proprietary
peptide antigen sets designed to invoke both killer T-cell (CD8)
and helper T-cell (CD4) immune responses against specific proteins
present on the surface of most target tumor cells. The naturally
processed antigens in these vaccines are derived from human immune
responses that are recognized by over 85 percent of the population.
This enables TapImmune to direct a uniquely strong and durable
anti-tumor immune response across a broader patient population.
Other companies in the oncology field lag far behind TapImmune,
developing immune-modulating technologies that prompt only CD4
T-cell response, only CD8 T-cell response, or none at all.
The company is currently advancing its two clinical-stage T-cell
vaccine candidates in multiple phase II and phase Ib/IIa clinical
trials for treating ovarian and breast cancers, both of which are
typically resistant to immunotherapies. Included are ovarian cancer
programs that will benefit from FDA Fast Track and Orphan Disease
Designation. TapImmune is collaborating with industry and clinical
leaders like the Mayo Clinic, AstraZeneca and the Memorial Sloan
Kettering Cancer Center.
Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Anavex Life
Sciences (AVXL) is engaged in developing differentiated
therapeutics to treat a variety of diseases, including cancer. The
company is exploring the approach of using sigma receptors as
targets for therapeutics to combat disease. Anavex has found that
when sigma receptors are bound by the appropriate ligands, they
influence the function of multiple biochemical signals involved in
pathogenesis, or the origin of disease. The company’s pipeline
includes compounds in varying stages of preclinical study for the
treatment of melanoma, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, colon
cancer and ovarian cancer.
Propanc Health Group (PPCH), a
development-stage health care company, is focused on developing new
and proprietary treatments for cancer patients who are suffering
from solid tumors like pancreatic, ovarian and colorectal cancers.
Working with scientific and oncology consultants, Propanc has
developed a rational, composite formulation of anti-cancer
compounds that work together to exert various effects designed to
control or prevent the recurrence and spread of tumors. The
company’s leading products are variations on its novel formulation
and involve or employ proenzymes. The company’s long-term therapy
is based on a pancreatic proenzyme formulation to suppress tumor
recurrence and metastasis, while PRP, its lead candidate, controls
cancer cell migration, impedes tumor blood vessel formation and
triggers cell death.
Clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Aquinox
Pharmaceutical (AQXP) is also focused on the discovery and
development of targeted therapeutics in immuno-oncology disease
areas. While the company’s chief focus is currently
anti-inflammatory product candidates, its longer-term strategy is
to broaden development activities for its lead product candidate,
AXQ-1125, for the treatment of cancer.
The approach of clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company
Bellicum Pharmaceuticals (BLCM) is developing
novel stem cell transplant, TCR and CAR T cell therapies. Operating
on the belief that cellular control is the key to safer, more
effective cell therapies, the company’s product candidates
incorporate molecular switches that are designed to allow the
activation or elimination of therapeutic cells within the body. The
focus of Bellicum Pharmaceuticals is discovering and developing
cellular immunotherapies for hematological cancers, solid tumors
and orphan inherited blood diseases.
As advancements continue in the fight against cancer, these
companies continue their efforts to develop new methods for
combating the disease and increase instances of good news for
cancer patients and their loved ones.
Editorial Sources:
(1) Cancer.gov: http://nnw.fm/9uSBp
For more information on TapImmune visit: TapImmune,
Inc. or www.Tapimmune.com
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