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See Latest ArticlesFDA Grants Orphan Drug Designation to Oncophage for the Treatment of Glioma
Antigenics, 05/01/09
Antigenics Inc. announced that Oncophage has been granted orphan drug status for the treatment of glioma by the US Food and Drug Administration. In March, the European Medicines Agency granted a similar designation for Oncophage. "Glioma is such an aggressive and challenging cancer that when patients are diagnosed with recurrence of this life threatening disease, they rarely live beyond six months," said Andrew T. Parsa, MD, PhD, associate professor in the department of neurological surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, and lead investigator of a Phase 2 trial evaluating Oncophage in glioma. "Given the poor survival rates, the medical community needs new treatment options, and I am hopeful of the potential for Oncophage to significantly improve clinical outcomes in this patient population."
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