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VION PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (OTC Bulletin Board: VION) announced the results of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) Meeting at which data for its lead oncology therapeutic Onrigin(TM)(laromustine) Injection were presented for the indication of remission induction treatment for patients sixty years of age or older with de novo poor-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The ODAC was asked by the U.S.

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