About Virginia Cancer Specialists

For more than 40 years, Virginia Cancer Specialists has contributed to the campaign against cancer and diseases of the blood. VCS has nine locations throughout Northern Virginia staffed by more than 30 highly-skilled physicians, each delivering exceptional care. The practice has built a world-class treatment team of cancer specialists, as well as acquiring the very latest treatment technology to help achieve the best outcomes for patients. VCS unites medical, radiation, and orthopedic oncologists, hematologists, oncology nurse navigators, oncology infusion nurses, radiation therapists, genetic counselors, oncology pharmacists and laboratory technicians, all working together as a team to design the optimal multidisciplinary treatment program, efficiently sharing knowledge, executing the treatment plan, and providing a patient-centered, consumer-friendly approach to cancer care. Patients receive the full spectrum of high-quality care necessary to treat their disease from a care team united in their effort to provide each patient with the specific personalized care they need to battle cancer.


Virginia Cancer Specialists has a well-established, comprehensive clinical research program and is one of the only fully staffed cancer centers committed to research in Northern Virginia. The practice has access to hundreds of innovative clinical trials through its affiliation with The US Oncology Network, one of the nation’s largest associations of community-based oncologists and a leader in the advancement of cancer research and treatment. The US Oncology Network conducts clinical research through US Oncology Research, which has played a role in approximately 60 FDA-approved cancer therapies. US Oncology Research manages about 300 active trials at any given time, and VCS participates in many of them, testing new leading-edge drugs or various combinations of treatments for cancer and blood disorders. To learn more about Virginia Cancer Specialists, please visit www.VirginiaCancerSpecialists.com.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements by or about ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc., each of which is qualified in its entirety by this cautionary statement. Any statements contained herein which do not describe historical facts, including, but not limited to statements regarding design, enrollment and anticipated timing for the Phase III clinical trial of brigatinib; the therapeutic potential for brigatinib; and the statements made by Dr. Clackson, are forward-looking statements that are based on ARIAD management’s expectations and are subject to certain factors, risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results, outcome of events, timing and performance to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. These factors, risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, ARIAD’s ability to successfully commercialize and generate profits from sales of Iclusig and its product candidates, if approved; competition from alternative therapies; ARIAD’s ability to meet anticipated clinical trial commencement, enrollment and completion dates and regulatory filing dates for its products and product candidates and to move new development candidates into the clinic; ARIAD’s ability to execute on its key corporate initiatives; regulatory developments and safety issues, including difficulties or delays in obtaining regulatory and pricing and reimbursement approvals to market its products; ARIAD’s reliance on the performance of third-party manufacturers and specialty pharmacies for the supply and distribution of its products and product candidates; the occurrence of adverse safety events with ARIAD’s products and product candidates; the costs associated with ARIAD’s research, development, manufacturing, commercialization and other activities; the conduct, timing and results of preclinical and clinical studies of ARIAD’s products and product candidates, including that preclinical data and early-stage clinical data may not be replicated in later-stage clinical studies; the adequacy of ARIAD’s capital resources and the availability of additional funding; the ability to satisfy ARIAD’s contractual obligations, including under its leases, convertible debt and royalty financing agreements; patent protection and third-party intellectual property claims; litigation; ARIAD’s operations in foreign countries; risks related to ARIAD’s key employees, markets, economic conditions, health care reform, prices and reimbursement rates; and other risk factors detailed in ARIAD’s public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Except as otherwise noted, these forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release and ARIAD undertakes no obligation to update or revise any of these statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after this press release. ARIAD cautions investors not to place considerable reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release.

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