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CP-4055 is a fatty acid derivative of cytarabine, an approved cytotoxic cancer drug. Cytarabine has limitations such as minimal uptake in solid tumours and is only used to treat leukaemia. CP-4055 is designed to overcome this limitation and has shown considerable uptake in solid tumour cells. CP-4055 is a patented new chemical entity of the nucleoside analog class, with improved biological properties and the potential to treat solid tumours such as non-small cell lung cancer, malignant melanoma and ovarian cancer.
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