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IMC-BEC2 cancer vaccine trial did not meet primary endpoint.

Vaccine Weekly

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2004 JUL 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- ImClone Systems, Inc., (IMCL) and Merck, KGaA, of Darmstadt, Germany (MRK), announced that the international, randomized, phase III, clinical trial of the companies' IMC-BEC2 cancer vaccine did not meet its primary endpoint of survival.

IMC-BEC2 is an investigational anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibody that mimics GD3, a ganglioside expressed on the cell membrane of most small cell lung cancer tumors. The study was conducted in collaboration with the cooperative group European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC). The results of the clinical trial were presented by EORTC Investigator Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD, department of oncology, Free University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in a presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting.

The clinical trial was designed to assess the survival benefit of vaccination with IMC-BEC2 and the immune stimulant BCG over a 2-year period. Patients in the trial were randomized into either the treatment ...

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