Advaxis Immunotherapy Boosts 12-Month Survival In Cervical Cancer
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
Advaxis Inc. reported that 38.5% of advanced cervical cancer patients – a group that normally survives for four to seven months on average – survived for at least 12 months after treatment with the company's immunotherapy axalimogene filolisbac (ADXS-HPV) in the first stage of a 67-patient, investigator-initiated, two-stage Phase II clinical trial.
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