Val-083 for unmethylated GBM
Al Musella's Comments: (This is his personal views and are not necessarily the views of the Musella Foundation!)
Very good results, but these are small studies. In the newly diagnosed group, 7 of 15 patients had a complete response. This is with unmethylated MGMT patients which is a much worse group than methylated. The data on the recurrent GBM is not available but they describe the trial!
It is possible that Val-083 should be used instead of Temodar for MGMT unmethylated patients. Val-083 is similar to Temodar - it is a chemotherapy (but IV not oral), but works at a different part of the DNA strand so the MGMT repair enzyme can not undo the damage like it does with Temodar. (A GMB patient with unmethylated MGMT produces a lot of the repair enzyme, making Temodar almost ineffective).
Posted on: 11/25/2019
Val-083 for unmethylated GBM
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