Enrollment in Delcath's Pivotal Phase III Metastatic Melanoma Clinical Trial Achieves Seventy-Five Perce...( NEW YORK June 8 /- Delcath Systems I...),Health

NEW YORK, June 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Delcath Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: DCTH), a medical technology company testing its proprietary percutaneous hepatic perfusion (PHP(TM)) system for the treatment of cancers of the liver, announced today that it has achieved the seventy-five percent enrollment point of its pivotal Phase III clinical trial treating metastatic cutaneous and ocular melanoma to the liver. The participating cancer centers in this trial continue to evaluate and enroll patients and the Company remains on target to complete enrollment this year.

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Commenting on this important event, Richard L. Taney, President and Chief Executive Officer of Delcath, stated, "Reaching the seventy-five percent enrollment point represents a significant milestone for our Company as we continue to accelerate this trial and accrue the data to support FDA approval of the Delcath PHP System(TM). Our effort to expand the trial to leading cancer centers has produced the accelerated pace that delivers this milestone just months after hitting 50% accrual and we look forward to completing enrollment this year. The clinical data for the first 69 patients will be submitted to the Data Safety Monitoring Board for evaluation once we complete the collection of follow-up data on the recently randomized patients. We look forward to updating our investors at our annual meeting to be held on June 9th."

This multi-center clinical study is being conducted under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Under this CRADA, patients for thi
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