Phase 1b Study of AdV-tk + Valacyclovir Combined With Radiation Therapy for Malignant Gliomas

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This phase I study evaluated a Gene Mediated Cytotoxic Immunotherapy approach for malignant gliomas, including glioblastoma multiforme and anaplastic astrocytoma. The purpose of this study was to assess the safety and feasibility of delivering an experimental approach called GliAtak which uses AdV-tk, an adenoviral vector containing the Herpes Simplex thymidine kinase gene, plus an oral anti-herpetic prodrug, valacyclovir, in combination with standard of care radiation.

• Phase: Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Advantagene, Inc.; Candel Therapeutics, Inc.
• Treatments: Acyclovir; Valacyclovir

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Presumed malignant glioma based on clinical and radiologic evaluation (pathologic confirmation of malignant glioma must be made at the time of stereotactic biopsy or resection prior to AdV-tk injection; if this is not possible, the injection will not be performed and the subject will no longer be eligible for the study).

• Tumor must be accessible for injection and must not be located in the brainstem, midbrain, contained within the ventricular system, or located in an infratentorial location.

• Patients must be planning to undergo standard radiation therapy.

• Patients must be 18 years of age or older.

• Performance status must be KPS > or equal to 70.

• Patients must have SGOT (AST) < 3x upper limit of normal.

• Patients must have serum creatinine < 2mg/dl and calculated creatinine clearance >10ml/min.

• Patients must have platelets > 100,000/mm3 and WBC > 3000/mm3.

• Patients of reproductive age must agree to use a medically accepted form of birth control while on the study.

• Patients must give study specific informed consent prior to enrollment.

• Patients must be able to tolerate MRI scan procedure

Exclusion Criteria:

• Prior or ongoing liver disease including known cirrhosis, hepatitis B or C infection but not to exclude patients with a distant history of resolved hepatitis A infection.

• Patients on immunosuppressive drugs (with exception of corticosteroid)

• Known HIV+ patients.

• Patients with acute infections (viral, bacterial or fungal infections requiring therapy).

• Pregnant or breast feeding patients. Female patients of childbearing age must have negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 1 week of beginning therapy.

• Evidence of metastatic disease or other malignancy (except squamous or basal cell skin cancers).

• Prior radiation therapy to the brain or prior treatment for brain tumor (except prior biopsy or subtotal resection).

• Other serious co-morbid illness or compromised organ function.

• Patients may not receive temozolomide until valacyclovir completed and may not receive other investigational anti-tumor agents within 30 days prior to study entry or during active participation in the study (defined as from study entry until tumor progression).