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Nuvilex to Attend 2015 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium in San Francisco, January 15-17, 2015

SILVER SPRING, Md., Jan. 6, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nuvilex, Inc. (NVLX) today announced that its Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Kenneth L Waggoner, JD, and its Chief Operating Officer, Gerald W. Crabtree, Ph.D., will be attending the 2015 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, "Bridging Cancer Biology to Clinical GI Oncology," to be held in the Moscone West Convention Center in San Francisco, California, January 15-17, 2015.

Nuvilex's CEO, Kenneth L. Waggoner, stated, "Our attendance at this pivotal Symposium, which is dedicated to recent advances in the treatment of cancers of the GI tract, is essential because a substantial portion of the Symposium will be dedicated to the treatment of pancreatic cancer and because a significant component of Nuvilex's portfolio is devoted to the development of treatments for this deadly disease and the symptoms associated with it. The treatments Nuvilex will employ to attack pancreatic cancer are based on the use of the proprietary Cell-in-a-Box(R) cellulose-based live cell encapsulation technology in combination with low doses of the anticancer prodrug ifosfamide that has been deemed effective in two previous clinical trials. Our targeted chemotherapy platform has now shown encouraging results in early preclinical studies in the U.S. performed by Translational Drug Development (TD2) that are concerned with the development of malignant ascites fluid in animals with an abdominal cancer."

The Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium is an annual event held in January in San Francisco and is co-sponsored by the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American Society of Radiation Oncology, the American Society for Radiation Oncology and the Society of Surgical Oncology. This Symposium is expected to attract over 3,000 participants from around the world who are experts in the treatment of cancers of the pancreas, small bowel, colon, rectum, hepatobiliary tract, esophagus and stomach. At this event, many of the latest developments in the prevention, screening, diagnosis, multidisciplinary treatment and translational research of GI cancers will be presented.