DCTH News...Delcath Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTH), NEW YORK, May 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --a development stage, specialty pharmaceutical and medical device company focused on oncology, reconfirmed today that the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has accepted an oral presentation of Delcath's Phase III Trial Data comparing percutaneous hepatic perfusion with melphalan (PHP-mel) to the best alternative care for patients with hepatic metastases from ocular or cutaneous melanoma for ASCO's 2010 Annual Meeting, to be held June 4-8, 2010 at McCormick Place in Chicago.
James F. Pingpank, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a lead Principal Investigator of the Phase III trial, will present the abstract on June 5 at 3:30 PM, during the Melanoma/Skin Cancer – Oral Abstract Session.
The abstract concerning Delcath's Phase III Clinical Trial is a late–breaking abstract. Per ASCO policy, all late-breaking abstracts will be publicly released on site at the Annual Meeting. According to ASCO, this process ensures that pivotal research accepted into ASCO's Annual Meeting is presented and discussed in a peer-review setting. These abstracts will also be made publicly available online for the first time over the duration of the Annual Meeting, June 4-8, 2010.
