first-in-human (fih) phase i trial of bs-006 in cervical cancer

Conditions: Uterine Cervical Neoplasms

Summary: this is a two-stage phase i clinical trial with oncolytic viruses bs-006 in recurrent or metastasis cervical cancer patients who failed in second line treatment.

this trial includes accelerated dose-escalation stage and dose-expansion stage. an engineered modification oncolytic viruses, bs-006, derived from type ii herpes simplex virus strain are planed to be injected into the tumor every two weeks until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity or withdrawn of consent or no lesion suitable for injection or death. in dose-escalation stage, there are three dose levels (1 million, 10 millions, 100 millions 50 % cell culture infectious dose (ccid50)/ml) . treatment dose will escalate to next higher level if no dose limiting toxicity happens for one time of injection in 3 subjects. maximal tolerable dose is defined as the highest dose with no more than one dose limiting toxicity and is recommended for dose expansion stage. in dose-expansion stage, 15 subjects will be enrolled. bs-006 viruses will be injected into proper tumor lesions every 2 weeks until disease progression or unacceptable toxicity or withdrawn of consent or no lesion suitable for injection or death. radiology assessment will repeat every 6 weeks. dose interruption, not reduction, is permitted in this stage.

Eligibility criteria:
inclusion criteria: 1. older than 18 years old and younger than 75 years old; 2. zubrod-ecog-who performance status is 0-1; 3. life expectancy is longer than 3 months; 4. pathologically proven malignant tumor originating from cervix uterine. all pathological types are acceptable except for sarcoma of any subtypes; 5. radiological confirmed progression after at least 2 lines prior treatment or intolerable toxicity events occur during the second or later line treatment: 1) neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy for no less than 2 cycles should be regarded as a separate treatment line if disease progress within 6 months after treatment finish;2) regional treatment such as brachytherapy, radiofrequency ablation and artery embolization therapy should not be considered as a treatment line; 3) treatment shift due to toxicity without radiological progression should not be counted as a separate line; 6. at least one measurement lesion according to recist 1.1; 7. at least one lesion with maximum diameter is larger than 1cm and surgically accessibility; 8. patients must have recovered from prior treatment related toxicity to ctcae grade 1 or 0; 9. time interval to last systematic treatment or radiation affecting more than 20% bone marrow must be more than 4 weeks; 10. time interval to last major surgery must be more than 4 weeks; 11. abundant organ function: 1) absolute neutrophil count is more than 1500/mm3 without granulocyte colony stimulating factor in the prior 7 days or long-acting granulocyte colony stimulating factor in the prior 20 days; platelets count is more than 100,000/mm3 without thrombopoietic drugs in the prior 7 days or platelet transfusion in the prior 10 days; hemoglobin is more than 9.0g/dl without red blood cell transfusion in the prior 20 days; 2) aspartate aminotransferase (ast) and alanine aminotransferase (alt) are lower than 2.5-fold upper limit of normal (uln); serum bilirubin is lower than 1.5-fold uln; serum albumin is more than 3g/dl; 3) serum creatinine is lower than 1.5-fold uln; 4) prothrombin time and activated partial thromboplastin time is lower than 1.3-fold uln; 12. patients must have fully recovered from suspected or diagnosed genital herpes beyond 3 months; 13. patients or their legally authorized representative must be willing and able to sign the informed consent form (icf) and to adhere to the protocol requirement; 14. women of childbearing potential must agree to use highly effective contraceptive methods in while on study drug and for at least 3 months after the last injection of bs-006. the pregnancy test within 7 days prior to the first injection must be negative. exclusion criteria: 1. cervical sarcoma of any subtype or prior history of other malignancy within 5 years; 2. central nerve system metastasis; 3. lesions met the requirement outlined in the inclusion criteria are unsafe for injection evaluated by investigators; 4. severe comorbidities of any organs, including but not limit to myocardial infarction within 6 months, unstable angina pectoris, congestive heart failure, grade 3 or higher hypertension per ctcae, cardiac arrhythmias, uncontrolled diabetes, fever of unknown reason, active digest ulcer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; 5. history of central nervous system infectious or demyelinating disease; 6. severe infectious disease requiring constant antibiotic treatment; 7. systematic glucocorticoids use within 2 weeks or glucocorticoids need for a long term; 8. active infection of hepatitis b or c, hiv, cytomegalovirus, syphilis or other virus requiring treatment; 9. immune disorder disease; 10. antiviral treatment of any kinds; 11. prior participant in experimental viral therapy; 12. allergy to herpes simplex virus vaccine; 13. participation in another research study within 4 weeks; 14. poor compliance or incapacitated patients due to mental illness or other reasons; 15. pregnancy or lactation.

Keywords: uterine cervical neoplasms oncolytic viruses bs-006 phase i clinical trial investigator initiated trial