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Patient enrollment begins in phase I trial of Tarvacin anticancer

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, November 21st, 2005

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (PPHM) announced The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has initiated patient enrollment in an ongoing phase I clinical trial of Tarvacin anticancer, the fourth clinical trial site.

The purpose of the trial is to assess the safety and tolerability and study the pharmacokinetics of Tarvacin anticancer in patients with advanced solid tumor malignancies who have failed to respond to available treatments.

Tarvacin anticancer is a monoclonal antibody that binds specifically to phospholipids, a basic component of the cell structure that is exposed only on the surface of tumor blood vessel cells and is not...

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