SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 6, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OXiGENE, Inc. (Nasdaq:OXGN), a clinical-stage, biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics to treat cancer and eye diseases, announced today that encouraging final results from a randomized, controlled, Phase 2/3 study of ZYBRESTAT (fosbretabulin tromethamine, or CA4P) in patients with anaplastic thyroid cancer (ATC) were presented today at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago, Illinois, by Julie Sosa, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery and of Medicine at Yale University, and primary investigator in the study.