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Northwest Biotherapeutics updates brain cancer clinical data

Published in Vaccine Weekly, September 27th, 2006

Northwest Biotherapeutics (NWBT.OB) updated its Phase I survival and progression data on patients from two clinical trials who have received DCVax-Brain, a therapeutic personalized cancer vaccine.

The report was given at the Cambridge Healthtech Institute's 3rd Annual Cancer Immunotherapeutics and Vaccines Conference in Boston, Mass.

Ongoing findings from the two Phase I clinical trials for DCVax-Brain were as follows. Seven of 16 patients are still alive, with follow-up times ranging from 18 to 75 months; six of these seven patients have shown no cancer recurrence.

In a landmark analysis at 24 months, 63% of treated patients were...

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