Greenwich LifeSciences Partners with GEICAM in Spain & Conducts First Site Initiation Visits in Europe

STAFFORD, Texas, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Greenwich LifeSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: GLSI) (the "Company"), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on its Phase III clinical trial, FLAMINGO-01, which is evaluating GLSI-100, an immunotherapy to prevent breast cancer recurrences, today announced the initiation of the first clinical sites in Europe in collaboration with GEICAM in Spain.

The Company has partnered with GEICAM, the largest academic breast cancer research network in Spain, where 38 hospitals have agreed to participate in FLAMINGO-01. These sites were recently approved by Spanish authorities, which led to site initiation visits and training of the first sites this past week.

Founded in 1995, GEICAM is a not-for-profit organization leading academic breast cancer research in Spain. It has conducted more than 140 studies involving more than 67,000 women and men and is comprised of more than 900 experts based in over 200 Spanish hospitals. Its mission is to promote independent clinical, epidemiological, and translational research in oncology, with a multidisciplinary approach and under quality criteria, to improve health outcomes, as well as prevention, medical education, and the dissemination of the knowledge of this disease to patients and general society. More information on GEICAM can be found at https://www.geicam.org/.

According to the latest data collected by the European Cancer Information System (ECIS), a total of 35,105 new cases of breast cancer were diagnosed in Spain in 2022, which is the most common cancer diagnosed in women, representing more than 30% of all cancers in women. Breast cancer is the leading cause of death in women between the ages 35-45 in Spain with 6,836 deaths in 2022.

Professor Miguel Martin, who serves on the FLAMINGO-01 Steering Committee, commented, "The HER2+ tumor subtype represents around 18% of all breast cancer cases and in the past was one of the worst prognosis. Anti-HER2 targeting therapies have significantly reduced the relapse rate in patients with early disease, but there is still room for improvement until we reach zero relapse rate. The vaccine being tested in the FLAMINGO-01 study offers an excellent opportunity to reduce these relapses without increasing the side effects of the treatment."