Dendreon Announces Webcast Presentation at New York Academy of Medicine's Cancer Immunotherapy Conference

SEATTLE, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dendreon Corporation (Nasdaq: DNDN) today announced that management will present at Cancer Immunotherapy: A Long Awaited Reality conference taking place October 21, 2010 at the New York Academy of Medicine in New York City.

The conference will be hosted by MD Becker Partners and BioBusiness.TV. There will be a corresponding live webcast of the conference, which can be accessed by visiting http://www.mdbpartners.com/vaccine.

About Dendreon

Dendreon Corporation is a biotechnology company whose mission is to target cancer and transform lives through the discovery, development, commercialization and manufacturing of novel therapeutics. The Company applies its expertise in antigen identification, engineering and cell processing to produce active cellular immunotherapy product candidates designed to stimulate an immune response in a variety of tumor types. Dendreon's first product, sipuleucel-T (marketed in the U.S. as PROVENGE®), was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in April 2010. Dendreon is exploring the application of additional ACI product candidates and small molecules for the potential treatment of a variety of cancers. The Company is headquartered in Seattle, Washington and is traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol DNDN. For more information about the Company and its programs, visit http://www.dendreon.com/.

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