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Oncolytic virotherapy

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Russell, Stephen J, Peng, Kah-Whye, Bell, John C·2012·Nature Biotechnology

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Oncolytic virotherapy is an emerging treatment modality that uses replication-competent viruses to destroy cancers. Recent advances include preclinical proof of feasibility for a single-shot virotherapy cure, identification of drugs that accelerate intratumoral virus propagation, strategies to maximize the immunotherapeutic action of oncolytic viruses and clinical confirmation of a critical viremic threshold for vascular delivery and intratumoral virus replication. The primary clinical milestone has been completion of accrual in a phase 3 trial of intratumoral herpes simplex virus therapy using talimogene laherparepvec for metastatic melanoma. Key challenges for the field are to select 'winners' from a burgeoning number of oncolytic platforms and engineered derivatives, to transiently suppress but then unleash the power of the immune system to maximize both virus spread and anticancer immunity, to develop more meaningful preclinical virotherapy models and to manufacture viruses with orders-of-magnitude higher yields than is currently possible.

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  • Many oncolytic viruses have been tested in clinical trials, with one licensed in China.

    “Many oncolytic viruses have been tested in clinical trials, 66 with one of them licensed in China.67”

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Authors
Russell, S. J., Peng, K.-W., & Bell, J. C.
Affiliations
  • Mayo Clinic (US)
  • Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (CA)
Corresponding author
Russell, Stephen J
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2012-07
Volume
30
Issue
7
Pages
658-670
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W4211238487
Cited by
1,428
References
168
Citations by year
2026: 86 · 2025: 79 · 2024: 90 · 2023: 109 · 2022: 99 · 2021: 105 · 2020: 111 · 2019: 86 · 2018: 102 · 2017: 117 · 2016: 98 · 2015: 128 · 2014: 111 · 2013: 99 · 2012: 7
FWCI
13.53
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Cancer Institute (R01CA129193, N01 CA015083, R01CA136547, CA118488, CA 136547, R01CA129966, CA 136393, CA-100634, CA129193, CA129966, R01CA118488, R01CA168719, R01CA100634, P30CA015083, P50CA136393)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Virus-based gene therapy research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Viral-associated cancers and disorders
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biotechnology › Cancer Research and Treatments
Keywords
oncolytic virotherapy, talimogene laherparepvec, herpes simplex virus type 1, metastatic melanoma, immunotherapy
MeSH terms
Adenoviridae, Clinical Trials as Topic, Genetic Vectors, Humans, Immunity, Cellular, Neoplasms, Simplexvirus, Oncolytic Virotherapy, Oncolytic Viruses

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