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ArticleAnnals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology2018

Starting the fight in the tumor: expert recommendations for the development of human intratumoral immunotherapy (HIT-IT).

A Marabelle, R Andtbacka, K Harrington, I Melero, R Leidner, T de Baere, C Robert, P A Ascierto, J-F Baurain, M Imperiale and 14 more

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Article in Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04167137 (A Phase 1, Open-label, Multicenter Study of SYNB1891 Administered by Intratumoral Injection to Patients With Advanced/Metastatic Solid Tumors and Lymphoma Alone and in Combination With Atezolizumab), which is not on this map. Cited by 120 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT04167137 phase1terminatednot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

A Phase 1, Open-label, Multicenter Study of SYNB1891 Administered by Intratumoral Injection to Patients With Advanced/Metastatic Solid Tumors and Lymphoma Alone and in Combination With Atezolizumab

TypeinterventionalSponsorSynlogicRan2019 to 2021Enrolled32ConditionsMetastatic Solid Neoplasm, LymphomaArmsSYNB1891, Atezolizumab
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

120 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors.

A MarabelleDépartement d'Innovation Thérapeutique et d'Essais Précoces, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France. Electronic address: aurelien.marabelle@gustaveroussy.fr.
R AndtbackaSurgical Oncology Department of Surgery, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.
K HarringtonThe Royal Marsden/The Institute of Cancer Research, National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Centre, London, UK.
I MeleroClinica Universidad de Navarra and CIBERONC, Pamplona, Spain.
R LeidnerProvidence Cancer Center, Earle A. Chiles Research Institute, Portland, USA.
T de BaereDepartment of Image Guided Therapy, Gustave Roussy, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif.
C RobertDepartment of Dermatology, Institute Gustave-Roussy, Paris, France.
P A AsciertoIstituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS Fondazione Pascale, Naples, Italy.
J-F BaurainKing Albert II Cancer Institute, Cliniques Universitaires St Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
M ImperialeNektar Therapeutics, San Francisco.
S RahimianIdera Pharmaceuticals, Exton, USA.
D TersagoClinical Development, Bioncotech Therapeutics, Madrid, Spain.
E KlumperLytix Biopharma AS, Oslo, Norway.
M HendriksAduro Biotech, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
R KumarMedImmune, LLC, Gaithersburg, USA.
M SternRoche, Zurich.
K ÖhrlingAmgen Europe GmbH, Zug, Switzerland.
C MassacesiGlobal Product Development Oncology, Pfizer, USA.
I TchakovEisai Ltd, Hatfield, UK.
A TseOncology Early Development, Merck & Co., Inc, Kenilworth, USA.
J-Y DouillardESMO, Viganello-Lugano, Switzerland.
J TaberneroMedical Oncology Department, Vall d' Hebron University Hospital, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain.
J HaanenDivision of Medical Oncology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
J BrodyDivision of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)-sponsored expert meeting was held in Paris on 8 March 2018 which comprised 11 experts from academia, 11 experts from the pharmaceutical industry and 2 clinicians who were representatives of ESMO. The focus of the meeting was exclusively on the intratumoral injection/delivery of immunostimulatory agents with the aim of harmonizing the standard terms and methodologies used in the reporting of human intratumoral immunotherapy (HIT-IT) clinical trials to ensure quality assurance and avoid a blurring of the data reported from different studies. The goal was to provide a reference document, endorsed by the panel members that could provide guidance to clinical investigators, pharmaceutical companies, ethics committees, independent review boards, patient advocates and the regulatory authorities and promote an increase in the number and quality of HIT-IT clinical trials in the future. Particular emphasis was placed not only on the development of precise definitions to facilitate a better understanding between investigators but also on the importance of systematic serial biopsies as a driver for translational research and the need for the recording and reporting of data, to facilitate a better understanding of the key processes involved.

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Research DesignBiomedical ResearchClinical Trials as TopicEuropeHumansImmunotherapyNeoplasmsPatient SelectionPractice Guidelines as TopicPractice Patterns, Physicians'Societies, MedicalTumor Microenvironment

Identifiers

PMID30295695
PMCPMC6290929

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