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Date:5/31/2008

tara trial to the next stage," said Dr. Kevin Judy, associate professor neurosurgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a principal investigator of the Cotara dosimetry trial. "Cotara's good safety profile to date is especially encouraging in view of the toxicity of the treatment options currently available to GBM patients. We look forward to further assessing its safety and anti-tumor activity at the higher doses we plan to use in the next stages of the trial."

The open label dose confirmation and dosimetry study at U.S. brain cancer centers is enrolling GBM patients with recurrent disease. Patients in this trial receive an initial imaging dose of Cotara before receiving the therapeutic dose.

"These positive data validate a key principle underlying the Cotara program, confirming its ability to specifically concentrate in and deliver a high radiation dose to brain tumors," said Steven W. King, president and CEO of Peregrine. "These results also further confirm the key targeting attribute of Cotara, showing it results in minimal radiation exposure to other organs, including the thyroid. We also are encouraged that patients in this initial, low-dose cohort have already lived longer than the expected median survival time for GBM patients at first relapse, and we look forward to reporting further data on Cotara in the coming months."

The dosimetry study's main objectives are to confirm the maximum tolerated dose of Cotara, to determine radiation dosimetry and to assess overall patient survival, progression-free survival and the proportion of patients alive at six months following Cotara administration. In addition to the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona are participating in the trial. A fourth study site was recently initiated at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Peregrine is also conducti
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