QUEBEC CITY, June 8 /CNW Telbec/ - Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS, TSX: AEZ) (the "Company"), a late-stage drug development company specialized in oncology and endocrine therapy, today reported final results on the clinical activity of perifosine (KRX-0401), the Company's novel, potentially first-in-class, oral anticancer agent that inhibits Akt activation in the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway, in combination with capecitabine (Xeloda(R)) as a treatment for advanced, metastatic colorectal cancer. Abstract #3531, entitled, "Final results of a randomized Phase 2 study of perifosine in combination with capecitabine (P-CAP) versus capecitabine plus placebo (CAP) in patients with second- or third-line metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC)" is being presented today in a poster discussion held during the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) held in Chicago.
