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Acute Myelogenous Leukemia

Vion Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentation of Interim Data from Pivotal Phase II Trial of Cloretazine(R) (VNP40101M) in Acute Myelogenous Leukemia at the ASCO(R) Annual Meeting

Published in Genetics and Environmental Business Week, June 19th, 2008

VION PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (NASDAQ:VION) announced that interim data from the pivotal Phase II trial of its lead anticancer agent Cloretazine(R) (VNP40101M) in elderly patients with de novo poor-risk acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) had been presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO(R)) in Chicago, Illinois.

At ASCO(R), data were presented in 85 evaluable patients. The median age of these patients was 73 years (range of 60-87 years). Ninety-five percent of patients had two or more risk factors associated with a poor prognosis in elderly AML and 74% had three or more risk factors. The most common risk factors were age greater...

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