Patients Begin Enrolling into Investigator-Sponsored Phase 2 Trial of Antigenics Inc. (Lexington, MA)'s Oncophage(R) Cancer Vaccine in Newly Diagnosed Glioma

LEXINGTON, Mass. & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Antigenics Inc. (NASDAQ:AGEN) today announced that the Brain Tumor Research Center at the University of California, San Francisco, has begun enrolling patients into a Phase 2 clinical trial of Oncophage (vitespen) in combination with the standard of care - radiation therapy plus Temodar (temozolomide) - for newly diagnosed glioma patients. The overall goals of the investigator-sponsored study are to evaluate median overall survival, progression-free survival and immunologic response to vaccine treatment.

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