Positive Final Survival Data from Ph 2 Clinical Trial of CAN-2409 in Non-Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer Announced
“Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most difficult to treat diseases,” said W. Garrett Nichols, MD, MS, Candel’s Chief Medical Officer. “Patients with borderline resectable PDAC often have undetectable metastases that are not cleared with current standard of care neoadjuvant chemoradiation and surgery. CAN-2409 is a first-in-class multimodal immunotherapy candidate designed for in situ vaccination against the patient’s tumor, which offers the potential to control this disease and to prolong survival, thus improving outcomes following this dismal prognosis.”
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