Athenex Inc. announced that it has received United States Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) allowance to proceed in the clinic with its proprietary oral form of Docetaxel. This allowance to proceed represents Athenex's sixth successful oncology investigational new drug (IND) application by the US FDA (5 oral anticancer drugs, one ointment) and the third such clinical drug candidate in Athenex's oral absorption platform. Docetaxel is an established and effective high potency anti-cancer drug.

Athenex has developed an oral form, called Oradoxel.