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Cellectar Reports Third Quarter 2019 Financial Results and Provides a Corporate Update
FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Nov. 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLRB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the
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[{"type":"text","content":"FLORHAM PARK, N.J., Nov. 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CLRB), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of cancer, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2019, and provided a corporate update.\n Third Quarter and Recent Corporate Highlights Presented data from the DLBCL cohort in the company’s Phase 2 CLOVER-1 study of CLR 131 in relapsed or refractory select B-cell malignancies at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2019. The oral presentation featured data from 6 subjects, who received up to a single 30-minute intravenous (IV) dose of 25mCi/m2 of CLR 131. Data showed durable responses with a mean of 312 days (ongoing) and includes a 33% overall response rate (ORR), a 16.6% complete response rate (CR) and a 50% clinical benefit rate (CBR). CLR 131 had activity in both DLBCL subtypes (germinal center B-cell and activated B-cell) and patients with highly resistant/aggressive cytogenetics (known as “dual hit”). All patients enrolled in the study received an average of 3 prior lines of systemic therapy, 5 of 6 patients were refractory to at least one prior line of therapy. Presented a poster entitled: “Phospholipid ether delivery vehicle shows specificity for a broad range of tumor cells and provides a novel and improved approach for targeted therapy,” at the Cancer Research UK-AACR Joint Conference on Engineering and Physical Sciences in Oncology. The poster featured data demonstrating that phospholipid ether drug conjugates (PDCs) were capable of delivering small molecule cytotoxins selectively to tumor cells and were well tolerated in animal models. Presented data from cohort 6 of its Phase 1 dose escalation study of CLR 131 in relapsed or refractory MM, in a late breaker poster at the 17th International Myeloma Workshop. Data highlighted 4 subjects in cohort 6 who received a fractionated dose of 37.5mCi/m2. Subjects in this cohort achieved a 50% ORR, with two subjects achieving partial responses (PR) and two subjects achieving minimal responses (39% and 48% reduction in M protein). CLR 131 was deemed safe and tolerated in all subjects with cytopenias being the only reported treatment emergent adverse events of grade 3 or higher. The majority (75%) ...