Samaritan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Exclusively Licenses Innovative Blood Diagnostic to Uncover Whether Breast Tumor is Cancer

LAS VEGAS, July 30, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Samaritan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMEX:LIV), a developer of innovative drugs, announced today that it has entered into an exclusive licensing agreement with Georgetown University for an innovative blood test diagnostic that detects whether a breast tumor is cancer and if diagnosed as cancer, the blood test detects the cancer's aggressiveness to metastasize and spread throughout the body. The innovative cancer diagnostic blood test was discovered as a result of its research and development collaboration with Georgetown University giving Samaritan first rights to license. The diagnostic screens for targeted tumor cell markers and has demonstrated the ability to identify just one circulating breast cancer cell out of millions of normal blood cells.

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