Phase I study of adenoviral delivery of the HSV-tk gene and ganciclovir administration in patients with current malignant brain tumors. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Between December 1996 and September 1998, 13 patients with advanced recurrent malignant brain tumors (9 with glioblastoma multiforme, 1 with gliosarcoma, and 3 with anaplastic astrocytoma) were treated with a single intratumoral injection of 2 x 10(9), 2 x 10(10), 2 x 10(11), or 2 x 10(12) vector particles (VP) of a replication-defective adenoviral vector bearing the herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene driven by the Rous sarcoma virus promoter (Adv.RSVtk), followed by ganciclovir (GCV) treatment. The VP to infectious unit ratio was 20:1. Our primary objective was to determine the safety of this treatment. Injection of Adv.RSVtk in doses <==2 x 10(11) VP, followed by GCV, was safely tolerated. Patients treated with the highest dose, 2 x 10(12) VP, exhibited central nervous system toxicity with confusion, hyponatremia, and seizures. One patient is living and stable 29.2 months after treatment. Two patients survived >25 months before succumbing to tumor progression. Ten patients died within 10 months of treatment, 9 from tumor progression and 1 with sepsis and endocarditis. Neuropathologic examination of postmortem tissue demonstrated cavitation at the injection site, intratumoral foci of coagulative necrosis, and variable infiltration of the residual tumor with macrophages and lymphocytes.

authors

  • Trask, Todd
  • Trask, R P
  • Aguilar-Cordova, Estuardo
  • Shine, H D
  • Wyde, P R
  • Goodman, J C
  • Hamilton, W J
  • Rojas-Martinez, Augusto
  • Chen, S H
  • Woo, S L
  • Grossman, R G

publication date

  • February 1, 2000

Research

keywords

  • Adenoviridae
  • Antiviral Agents
  • Brain Neoplasms
  • Ganciclovir
  • Genetic Therapy
  • Simplexvirus
  • Thymidine Kinase

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0034136802

PubMed ID

  • 10933931

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 1

issue

  • 2