Unique Advantages: Faster Prognosis With Breast Cancer Diagnosis Taking 1-7 Days Compared to the Traditional 3-Weeks Determines Breast Cancer Tumor Aggressiveness and Likelihood of Cancer Metastasis Efficaciously
LAS VEGAS, May 15, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Samaritan Pharmaceuticals Inc. (AMEX:LIV), a developer of innovative drugs, announced today it has received a notice that the United States patent, Title: Peripheral-Type Benzodiazepine Receptor: A tool for detection, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of cancer was formally allowed on April 9, 2007. U.S. Patent Application Serial Number: 09/047,652.
Samaritan's diagnostic kit is comprised of antibodies against PBR suitable for use in detecting the presence of an aggressive breast cancer tumor. This patent's claims are related to a biopsy test. Samaritan has also filed another application for a blood test against the same marker.
The patent has been awarded to Georgetown University and is exclusively licensed to Samaritan.
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Samaritan Pharmaceuticals is an entrepreneurial biopharmaceutical company, focused on commercializing innovative therapeutic products to relieve the suffering of patients with Alzheimer's disease, Acute Coronary Disease, Cancer, HIV, and Hepatitis-C. Samaritan has collaborates its "oral" HIV viral-entry inhibitor for "HIV drug resistance" with Pharmaplaz, Ireland, and plans to advance SP-01A to Phase III. Samaritan has three drug candidates in various stages of IND development, it's building upon its issued IND for Caprospinol, SP-233, to treat memory loss in Alzheimer's disease patients; evaluating the use of SP-1000 for acute coronary disease patients; and the use of SP-10T1 as an "oral treatment" for Hepatitis-C. In addition, Samaritan has acquired the marketing and sales rights to sell nine revenue-generating products in Greece and/or various Eastern European countries.
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