Pivotal Study Results: ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals Limited’s Omacetaxine May Provide the First Viable Drug Treatment Option for Patients With a Highly Resistant Form of CML

MELBOURNE, Australia & MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals Limited (ChemGenex) (ASX:CXS) (NASDAQ:CXSP) announced that the latest data from its pivotal study of omacetaxine in patients with T315I-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) was the subject of an oral presentation and discussion today at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. The open label Phase 2/3 study (CGX-635-CML-202) investigated the use of omacetaxine, administered subcutaneously in CML patients who had failed imatinib and who have the highly drug resistant T315I kinase domain mutation.

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