Adherex Technologies Inc. (TSX:AHX)(AMEX: ADH), a biopharmaceutical company with a broad portfolio of oncology products under development, today announced that the Company has concluded the Phase Ib component of its Phase Ib/II ADH-1 trial in Europe and has begun the expanded accrual restricted to lung and ovarian cancers. The study, which is examining a weekly dosing schedule of ADH-1, will now enroll patients at the maximum studied dose of 2400 mg/m2 with N-cadherin positive non-small cell lung cancer and ovarian cancer. The Company expects to enroll approximately 20 further patients in this trial. The number of patients enrolled could be increased, depending on the level of anti-tumor activity noted.
