News — September 1, 2010 at 6:52 pm

(Reuters) – A small, early-stage trial of a therapeutic brain cancer vaccine developed by ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Ltd showed that nearly half the patients were alive without their cancer worsening 18 months after diagnosis. The Phase 1 trial involved 16 patients with glioblastoma multiforme, the most common and deadly form of brain cancer. They were treated with ICT-107, an experimental dendritic...

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