Mice with BxPC-3 pancreatic, MCF-7 breast or A-549 NSCL cancer xenografts are administered PHT-427, or its analogs with a C-4, C-6 or C-8 alkyl chain by oral gavage twice a day for 10 days. The results show that PHT-427 has the greatest antitumor activity with the C-8 chain analog having less activity, and analogs with a C-4 or C-6 chain very little activity. All further antitumor studies are conducted using compound PHT-427. Plasma levels of PHT-427 following oral administration to mice of a dose of 200 mg/kg show rapid absorption, without a lag phase, Cmax is 8.2 µg/mL 1 hr following dosing, and the elimination half-life is 1.4 hr with a terminal PHT-427 concentration of 0.1 µg/mL 10 hr after dosing. The plasma concentration of PH-427 is above the level which gave inhibition of Akt and PDPK1 signaling in cells of 10 µM (4 µg/mL) for at least 3 hr.