RE: Cancer vaccines trial matchmaking launch with NHS31 May 2024 08:18
Big companies have their money and marketing power to push their personalised. We have our data, and we are not using it. Do you think people who are reading articles like this that are constantly in popular media will chose scancell and not Moderna, biontech etc because we had a good interim readout last year? No one from the general population remembers that. We have one weapon as a small company and we are not using it, our data.
I'm talking about recruitment in the trials. If you actually do some DD you'll see that from 16 patients in 2 years (September 2019 - September 2023, excluding covid period) we went to 11 patients in 8 months (September 2023 - May 2024), that's actually a substantial improvement but the company failed to keep momentum.
Another thing that I just noticed on another forum. At the AGM (November 2023) the company said 21 patients had been recruited so that's 5 patients in 2 months after the announcement and then 6 patients in 6 months. It is clear that they would NEVER going to recruit all of the by EOY 2023 (even at the 5 patients/2 months which is huge relative to previous recruitment) but ALSO that the announcement back then had a significant impact on recruitment.