Cel-Sci Corp. Tuesday said it has started a second Phase IIstudy of its BC-IL lymphokine cocktail, in malignant melanomathat has metastasized and has failed to respond to othertherapies.

The cell culture-derived mixture of lymphokines currently isin Phase II clinicals for head and neck cancer.

Malignant melanoma is now the fastest-growing cancer in theUnited States, according to the company, which citedestimates that one in 90 people will have the disease by theyear 2000.

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