BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J., Jan. 13, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:CYCC) (Nasdaq:CYCCP) announced today that the company has begun treating patients in a Phase 2, open label, single arm, multicenter clinical trial of sapacitabine (CYC682) in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have had one prior chemotherapy. This study builds on the observation of prolonged stable disease of four months or longer experienced by heavily pretreated NSCLC patients involved in two Phase 1 studies of sapacitabine. The multicenter Phase 2 trial is led by Philip D. Bonomi, M.D., the Alice Pirie Wirtz Professor of Medical Oncology at the Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.
