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European Patent Received for Cancer Immunotherapy Technology

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 1st, 1995

Lidak Pharmaceuticals, La Jolla, California, announced that it has been granted a European patent for its Large Multivalent Immunogen (LMI) technology for use in cancer immunotherapy.

LMI is a proprietary therapeutic approach designed to stimulate the body's own defense mechanisms against cancer cells and virus-infected cells. In pre-clinical studies, LMI has been shown to effectively stimulate and enhance the responses of cancer specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), or "killer cells," against a variety of tumors in mice.

When combined with traditional chemotherapy, the LMI technology significantly improved survival rates of cancer-bearing mice. ...

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