NOTTINGHAM, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scancell Holdings Plc, (AIM:SCLP), the developer of therapeutic cancer vaccines, is pleased to announce preliminary results from Part 1 of the Phase 1/2 clinical trial of its DNA ImmunoBody® vaccine in patients with Stage III/IV malignant melanoma. Of the six patients allocated to the 2mg and 4mg dose cohorts and who received at least four doses of SCIB1, four have shown a vaccine-induced T cell response to treatment. Although the study was not designed primarily to measure tumour response, one patient in the 4mg dose cohort with multiple tumour lesions at study entry had a differential response to treatment including partial or complete regression of all lung metastases. A further two patients who had all their tumours surgically removed prior to SCIB1 treatment have remained disease-free more than a year after first dosing. The vaccine produced very few side effects, none of which were serious.
