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Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is committed to extending the lives and improving the quality of life of cancer patients worldwide by developing and commercializing innovative cancer therapeutics. Vion has two agents in clinical trials. Cloretazine(R) (VNP40101M), a unique alkylating agent, is being evaluated in a Phase II pivotal trial as a single agent in elderly patients with previously untreated de novo poor-risk acute myelogenous leukemia. Clinical trials of Cloretazine(R) (VNP40101M) as a single agent in small cell lung cancer, with temozolomide in brain tumors, and with hematopoietic cell transplantion in advanced hematologic malignancies, are also being conducted. Triapine(R), a potent inhibitor of a key step in DNA synthesis, is being evaluated in clinical trials sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. For additional information on Vion and its product development programs, visit the Company's Internet web site at www.vionpharm.com.
This news release contains forward-looking statements. Such statements are
subject to certain risk factors which may cause Vion's plans to differ or
results to vary from those expected, including Vion's potential inability to
obtain regulatory approval for its products, delayed or unfavorable results of
drug trials, the possibility that favorable results of earlier preclinical
studies or clinical trials are not predictive of safety and efficacy results
in later clinical trials, the need for additional research and testing, the
potential inability to secure external sources of funding to continue
operations, the inability to access capital and funding on favorable terms,
continued operating losses and the inability to continue operations as a
result, and a variety of other risks set forth from time to time in Vion's
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited
to the risks attendant to the forward-looking statements included under Item
1A, 'Risk Factors' in Vion's Form 10-K for the year ended
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Vion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Alan Kessman, Chief Executive Officer
Howard B. Johnson, President & CFO
(203) 498-4210
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