On August 21, 2018 Delcath Systems, Inc. (OTCQB: DCTH), an interventional oncology company focused on the treatment of primary and metastatic cancers of the liver, reported that the first patient has been enrolled under the amended protocol for its registration trial in ocular melanoma liver metastases (Press release, Delcath Systems, AUG 21, 2018, View Source;p=RssLanding&cat=news&id=2364273 [SID1234529754]). Stanford University Medical Center is the first trial site to enroll a patient under the amended protocol.

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The trial, A Single-arm, Multi-Center, Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Efficacy, Safety and Pharmacokinetics of Melphalan/HDS Treatment in Patients with Hepatic-Dominant Ocular Melanoma (The FOCUS Trial), will enroll a minimum of 80 patients with ocular melanoma metastatic to the liver. Patients previously enrolled in the Melphalan/HDS arm of the trial under the prior randomized protocol will continue to be treated and evaluated as part of the amended trial.

"We are very pleased that the team at Stanford were able to begin enrolling patients in the amended trial so quickly," said Jennifer K. Simpson, PhD, MSN, CRNP, President and Chief Executive Officer of Delcath Systems. "We look forward to rolling out the amended protocol to additional centers in the coming months and are working hard to achieve our goal of completing trial enrollment by the end of the first half of 2019."