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Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
Vion Pharmaceuticals Announces Presentation of Data from Phase III Trial of Cloretazine(R) (VNP40101M) and Cytarabine in Relapsed Acute Myelogenous Leukemia at the ASCO(R) Annual Meeting
June 20th, 2008
VION PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (NASDAQ:VION) announced that data from the Phase III trial of its lead anticancer agent Cloretazine(R) (VNP40101M) in combination with cytarabine in patients with first relapse of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) had been presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO(R)) in Chicago, Illinois. The Phase III trial started in March 2005 and was conducted in 69 sites in North America and Europe. In May 2007, after an interim analysis of 210 patients by the trial's data safety monitoring board (DSMB), the Company suspended treatment and enrollment of patients, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-06-20)
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