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PROSTVAC Progresses to Phase II Trials In Battle against Prostate Cancer

Published in Immunotherapy Weekly, June 22nd, 1998

A vaccine protocol based on a recombinant vaccinia virus expressing prostate specific antigen (PSA) (PROSTVAC) was administered safely to patients with adenocarcinoma of the prostate.

Joseph P. Eder Jr., representing colleagues from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts; the U.S. National Cancer Institute, Maryland; and Therion Biologics Corporation, Massachusetts; presented phase I clinical trial results of PROSTVAC prostate cancer vaccine at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, held May 16-19, 1998, in Los Angeles, California (abstract "A Phase I Trial of Recombinant Vaccinia Virus, PROSTVAC, that...

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