Cellular Biomedicine Group, Inc. (OTCQB: CBMG), a biomedicine firm engaged in the development of new treatments for degenerative and cancerous diseases, is pleased to announce that it has treated the final patient of its Phase I clinical trial which evaluates the safety and preliminary efficacy of TC-DC (Tumor Stem Cell Specific Dendritic Cell) therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer.
The Phase I clinical trial for TC-DC therapy for HCC is an open-label clinical trial conducted with Shanghai's PLA 85 Hospital, one of China's largest Liver Disease Centers. The trial evaluated the safety and preliminary efficacy in lowering the incidence of tumor recurrence and metastasis by means of autologous immune cell therapy in primary HCC patients following standard tumor resection and TACE chemotherapy.
"We are very pleased to reach this important milestone in our clinical trial and we look forward to reporting the full data readout early in the new year," said Dr. Wei (William) Cao, PhD, BM, CEO at Cellular Biomedicine Group.
Hepatocellular Carcinoma in China
Fifty-five percent (55%) of the world's HCC patients are in China, and there are more than 340,000 new patients diagnosed per year in China, according to the journal titled Chinese Clinical Oncology, Mar 2009, Vol. 14, No. 3. Currently, the most common therapies used to treat most HCC patients are surgery and local chemotherapy, with a 2-year recurrence rate of 51%.
Evaluating the effectiveness of GAAD for early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma