Intratumoral delivery of an engineered oncolytic virus, DNX-2401, targeting glioblastoma cells combined with subsequent immunotherapy was safe and improved survival outcomes in a subset of patients with recurrent GBM, according to results from a multi-institutional phase I/II clinical trial co-led by researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Toronto.
Immunotherapy has changed the course of blood cancers and melanomas, but is stubbornly ineffective for the treatment of most epithelial solid cancers—the cancers that kill about 90% of the more than 600,000 Americans who die of cancer each year.
