Lantern Pharma Announces First Patient Enrolled in Taiwan for Phase 2 HARMONIC™ Clinical Trial of LP-300 in Never-Smoker NSCLC Patients
Monday, 9th December at 8:15 am
Multiple clinical trial sites across Taiwan are actively screening patients, following successful site initiation visits.
Expansion into Taiwan is particularly significant as over 50% of lung cancer cases in Taiwan occur in never-smokers.
Lantern Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ: LTRN), an artificial intelligence (AI) company developing targeted cancer therapies using its proprietary RADR® AI platform, today announced that the first patient has been enrolled and dosed in Taiwan for its Phase 2 HARMONIC™ clinical trial evaluating LP-300 in never-smoker patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have progressed after receiving treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).
The enrollment of the first patient in Taiwan extends the recent expansion of the HARMONIC™ trial into Asia, where there is a notably higher prevalence of never-smoker NSCLC patients compared to Western populations. Taiwan represents a particularly important region for the trial, as more than half of all new lung cancer diagnoses in Taiwan occur in people who are classified as never-smokers. Never-smokers in the context of lung cancer have been commonly defined, by the CDC and other health agencies, as people who have smoked less than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime.