Celsion's Breast Cancer Treatment System to be Featured Today On Boston's WHDH-Channel 7 Healthcast Program.Health/Medical Editors COLUMBIA, Md.--(BW HealthWire)--May 19, 2000 Celsion Corporation (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). BB: CELN) a leader in the development of treatment systems for breast cancer, BPH, and other cancer diseases, announced today that its breast cancer treatment This article or section recently underwent a major revision or rewrite and needs further review. You can help! The mainstay of breast cancer treatment is surgery when the tumor is localized, with possible adjuvant hormonal therapy (with tamoxifen or an aromatase technology will be featured on today's segment of WHDH's Healthcast program at 5 p.m. EST. WHDH is the Boston affiliate of NBC. The program will air in the Boston area on Channel 7. Celsion's treatment, which uses focused microwaves to ablate (kill) tumors without surgery, using heat alone, is currently being featured nationwide in an independently-produced news segment. This is an unsolicited news item. The adaptive phased technology upon which the treatment is based was originally developed by Dr. Alan Fenn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, for use in the "Star Wars" defense initiative. Dr. Fenn will be interviewed during the Healthcast segment. An additional interview, with Dr. Robert Gardner at the Center for Breast Surgery (a member of Columbia Health Care in Florida) and one of his patients, will also be included. Dr. Gardner discusses the benefits of microwave technology. About Celsion: Celsion Corporation is a research and development company dedicated to commercializing medical treatment systems for cancer and other diseases using focused heat technology delivered by patented microwave technology. Celsion has research, license or commercialization agreements with leading institutions such as Duke University Medical Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harbor UCLA Medical Center UCLA Medical Center is a hospital located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. It is rated as one of the top three hospitals in the United States and is the top hospital on the West Coast according to US News & World Report. , the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at San Francisco, Montefiore Medical Center Montefiore Medical Center, in the Bronx, New York, is the university hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The hospital, named after Moses Montefiore, is one of the 50 largest employers in New York State [1]. , Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York and Duke University. Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation, possible changes in cost of materials, expense items, capital expenditures, capital structure, and other financial items; introduction of new products and possible acquisitions of assets or businesses; possible actions by customers, suppliers, competitors, regulatory authorities; and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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