Elacytarabine
Elacytarabine 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. Elacytarabine is designed to overcome this limitation and has shown considerable uptake in solid tumour cells. Elacytarabine 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.