Journal
CANCER GENE THERAPY
Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 167-175Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/cgt.2010.65
Keywords
clinical trial; pancreatic cancer; HF10; herpes oncolytic virus
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- Takeda Science Foundation in Japan
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22390088] Funding Source: KAKEN
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In 2005, we initiated a clinical trial that examined the efficacy of the oncolytic virus HF10 to treat pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic cancer continues to have a high mortality rate, despite multimodal treatments for patients, and new therapeutic methods are greatly needed. The current mainstream methods for cancer treatment include biological therapeutics such as trastuzumab (Herceptin) for breast cancer or erlotinib (Tarceva) for non-small cell lung cancer. Oncolytic virus therapy is a new and promising treatment strategy for cancer. Oncolytic viruses are novel biological therapeutics for advanced cancer that appear to have a wide spectrum of anticancer activity with minimal human toxicity. To examine the efficacy of oncolytic virus therapy for pancreatic cancer, we initiated pilot studies by injecting six patients with non-resectable pancreatic cancer with three doses of HF10. All patients were monitored for 30 days for local and systemic adverse effects and were not administered any other therapeutics during this period. There were no adverse side-effects, and we observed some therapeutic potential based on tumor marker levels, survival, pathological findings and diagnostic radiography. The tumors were classified as stable disease in three patients, partial response in one patient and progressive disease in two patients. Cancer Gene Therapy (2011) 18, 167 175; doi: 10.1038/cgt.2010.65; published online 19 November 2010
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