GTx, Inc, announced that the United States Food and Drug Administration will target a Prescription Drug User Fee Act agency action date of October 30, 2009 for the toremifene 80 mg New Drug Application (NDA), which is within 10 months of the submission of the NDA.

Toremifene 80 mg is an oral selective estrogen receptor modulator which GTx seeks to market for the prevention of bone fractures in men with prostate cancer on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

ADT is primary treatment for advanced prostate cancer. In the United States, approximately 700,000 men with prostate cancer are being treated with ADT and an estimated 100,000 initiate ADT each year.

GTx is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecules that selectively target hormone pathways to treat cancer, osteoporosis and bone loss, muscle loss and other serious medical conditions.