CEL-SCI and Northeast Ohio Medical University Develop Novel Cancer Vaccine That Prevents and Treats Breast Cancer

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE MKT: CVM) announced that its longstanding collaboration with Northeast Ohio Medical University has produced a new investigational breast cancer vaccine which prevents and treats a HER-2/neu expressing breast cancer tumor in a mouse model of the disease. In animal tests this vaccine has shown 1) reduction of number of tumors, 2) reduction of tumor mass, 3) absence of tumor in lymph nodes or peritoneal membranes and 4) changes in angiogenesis. Kenneth S. Rosenthal, Ph.D. of Northeast Ohio Medical University presented these findings in detail at the GTCBIO Immune Responses in the Tumor Microenvironment Workshop, January 30, 2013 to February 1, 2013 in San Diego, CA.