SAN JOSE, Calif., April 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Anixa Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: ANIX), a biotechnology company focused on using the body's immune system to fight cancer, presented the latest data from its ongoing study on prostate cancer detection, utilizing Cchek™, its artificial intelligence (AI) driven cancer detection technology, at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR).  The meeting was held March 29–April 3, 2019 and was attended by world leading experts across the field of cancer research.  Anixa's presentation is available on the Company's website, at: www.anixa.com/cchek/recent-data.

Dr. Amit Kumar, CEO of Anixa, stated, "We are pleased with the response received on our presentation from the scientific community, and look forward to the impact our technology may have on cancer treatment."

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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