SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIX), a biotechnology company focused on using the body's immune system to fight cancer, today announced that it will present data from its ongoing studies in breast cancer utilizing Cchek™, Anixa's artificial intelligence (AI) driven early cancer detection technology, at the AACR Special Conference on Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy.  The conference is designed to integrate multidisciplinary facets of basic cancer immunology and immunotherapy to broaden the understanding of ways to harness the immune system to treat cancer.  The conference will be held November 27–30, 2018 in Miami Beach, Florida and will be attended by world-renowned oncologists and scientists who will offer new insights on systems biology, checkpoints, combination therapies, and molecular targets, all in the pursuit of finding new ways to manipulate the tumor immune microenvironment and creating better treatments.  To receive a copy of the presentation, please email your request to AACR-TII-2018@anixa.com starting November 30, 2018 and include your name, title, and contact information.

"We are pleased to make our presentation titled, Combining the immunophenotyping of MDSCs and lymphocytes with artificial intelligence (AI) to predict early stage breast cancer, at the AACR Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy conference.  This data is focused on using our Cchek™ technology to detect breast cancer in its early stages.  The majority of screening technologies currently used for breast cancer detection, such as mammography, have the ability to detect later stage breast malignancies rather successfully but have shown difficulty with earlier stages," stated Dr. Amit Kumar, President and CEO of Anixa Biosciences.  "As we have previously announced, our initial commercial focus is on a prostate cancer test for which we will be meeting with the USFDA on December 17, 2018.  We recently presented our latest prostate cancer data at the 33^rd Annual Meeting of The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), and we look forward to now present our latest breast cancer data at this AACR special conference," added Dr. Kumar.

American Association of Cancer Research (AACR)
The American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) (www.aacr.org) is a 501(c)(3) public charity headquartered in Philadelphia, PA.  The mission of the AACR is to prevent and cure cancer through research, education, communication and collaboration.  Through its programs and services, the AACR fosters cancer research and related biomedical science; accelerates the dissemination of new research findings among scientists and others dedicated to the conquest of cancer; promotes science education and training; and advances the understanding of cancer causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment throughout the world.

About Anixa Biosciences, Inc.
Anixa, a cancer-focused biotechnology company, is harnessing the body's immune system in the fight against cancer.  Anixa is developing both diagnostics and therapeutics to detect cancer early, when it is most curable, and to treat those afflicted once diagnosed.  It is developing the Cchek^TM platform, a series of inexpensive non-invasive blood tests for the early detection of solid tumors, which is based on the body's immune response to the presence of a malignancy.  It is also developing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) based immuno-therapy drugs which genetically engineer a patient's own immune cells to fight cancer.  Anixa also continually examines emerging technologies in complementary or related fields for further development and commercialization.  Additional information is available at www.anixa.com.

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