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Dendreon announces Provenge significantly improves survival in men with advanced prostate cancer.

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Dendreon Corp announced that Provenge, the company's investigational immunotherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer, significantly improved survival in men with asymptomatic, meta-static androgen-independent prostate cancer when compared to patients receiving placebo. The final data from the D9901 study will be presented at the University of California, San Francisco, on 19 Feb 2005 at the 2005 Multidisciplinary Prostate Cancer Symposium. According to the final three-year intent-to-treat analysis of the company's first randomised Phase III clinical study (D9901), patients receiving Provenge had a 4.5 month…

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