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Brain Cancer Vaccine Trial Extends Life of Participants

DCVax-L is a personalized immune therapy that uses the patient’s own cells and antigens from the cancerous tumor.

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Glioblastoma is the most common and also most lethal form of primary brain cancer, but the standard of care hasn’t changed in nearly two decades. Typical prognoses are just 15-17 months from diagnosis, and the five-year prognosis is just 5%. A recent BioPharma article covered a new brain cancer vaccine in Phase 3 trials that aims to extend those numbers.. Northwest Biotherapeutics’ DCVax-L vaccine has shown to extend survival in newly-diagnosed glioblastoma brain cancer patients for several months, which reached the primary and secondary endpoints of the trial. 

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