A Study of Recombinant Vaccinia Virus to Treat Unresectable Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to determine whether JX-594 (Pexa-Vec) has significant anti-tumoral activity and tolerability in primary hepatocellular carcinoma and to determine the dose to be used in further testing.

Timeline

Start

2008-08

Primary completion

2011-12

Completion

2013-02

Publications

• Results Heo J, Reid T, Ruo L, Breitbach CJ, Rose S, Bloomston M, Cho M, Lim HY, Chung HC, Kim CW, Burke J, Lencioni R, Hickman T, Moon A, Lee YS, Kim MK, Daneshmand M, Dubois K, Longpre L, Ngo M, Rooney C, Bell JC, Rhee BG, Patt R, Hwang TH, Kirn DH. Randomized dose-finding clinical trial of oncolytic immunotherapeutic vaccinia JX-594 in liver cancer. Nat Med. 2013 Mar;19(3):329-36. doi: 10.1038/nm.3089. Epub 2013 Feb 10.
• Breitbach CJ, Arulanandam R, De Silva N, Thorne SH, Patt R, Daneshmand M, Moon A, Ilkow C, Burke J, Hwang TH, Heo J, Cho M, Chen H, Angarita FA, Addison C, McCart JA, Bell JC, Kirn DH. Oncolytic vaccinia virus disrupts tumor-associated vasculature in humans. Cancer Res. 2013 Feb 15;73(4):1265-75. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-12-2687. Epub 2013 Feb 7.

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