Dendreon's Critical Clinical Trials

How Dendreon's drug Provenge performs in sequence with Johnson & Johnson's drug Zytiga to treat advanced stage prostate cancer is crucial to the company's near- to mid-term success. In this video, Motley Fool health care analyst David Williamson discusses the possible outcomes and how Dendreon will move forward if the clinical trial is a failure.

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