Trial reportNature medicine2021
Neoadjuvant talimogene laherparepvec plus surgery versus surgery alone for resectable stage IIIB-IVM1a melanoma: a randomized, open-label, phase 2 trial.
Trial report in Nature medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02211131 (A Phase 2, Multicenter, Randomized, Open-label Trial Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Talimogene Laherparepvec Neoadjuvant Treatment Plus Surgery Versus Surgery Alone for Resectable, Stage IIIB to IVM1a Melanoma), which is not on this map. Cited by 83 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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A Phase 2, Multicenter, Randomized, Open-label Trial Assessing the Efficacy and Safety of Talimogene Laherparepvec Neoadjuvant Treatment Plus Surgery Versus Surgery Alone for Resectable, Stage IIIB to IVM1a Melanoma
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83 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 142 citations in OpenAlex.
- Cutaneous melanoma: ESMO Clinical Practice Guideline for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2025Guideline
- The efficacy and safety assessment of oncolytic virotherapies in the treatment of advanced melanoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Virology journal · 2023Pooled it
- Intratumoral oncolytic virus OH2 injection in patients with locally advanced or metastatic sarcoma: a phase 1/2 trial.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2025Trial
- Efficacy and tolerability of neoadjuvant therapy with Talimogene laherparepvec in cutaneous basal cell carcinoma: a phase II trial (NeoBCC trial).Nature cancer · 2025Trial
- Neoadjuvant anti-PD-1 alone or in combination with anti-TIGIT or an oncolytic virus in resectable stage IIIB-D melanoma: a phase 1/2 trial.Nature medicine · 2025Trial
- Neoadjuvant vidutolimod and nivolumab in high-risk resectable melanoma: A prospective phase II trial.Cancer cell · 2024Trial
- A phase II randomized trial of talimogene laherparepvec oncolytic immunotherapy with or without radiotherapy for patients with cutaneous metastases from solid tumors.Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology · 2024Trial
- Rejuvenating endogenous antitumor immunity via a chimeric receptor-engineered oncolytic virus targeting tumor-associated macrophages.Science advances · 2026Article
- Complete tumour regression of in-transit melanoma following discontinuation of talimogene laherparepvec.BMJ case reports · 2026Article
- Updates on intratumoral therapies in melanoma.Cancer · 2026Review
- The Evolving Role of Intralesional Therapy in In-Transit Melanoma.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Review
- Oncolytic viruses and cytokine-based gene therapies reprogram the tumor microenvironment.Nature cancer · 2026Review
- Neoadjuvant therapy in skin cancer: current evidence and future perspectives.Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft = Journal of the German Society of Dermatology : JDDG · 2026Review
- After a Decade of Therapy Revolution in Cutaneous Melanoma-Perspectives on Emerging Treatment Strategies.Oncology research · 2026Review
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- Effect of neoadjuvant therapy on survival outcomes in patients with melanoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Oncolytic viruses as anticancer agents: clinical progress and remaining challenges.Lancet (London, England) · 2025Review
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- Melanoma update: is a cure now in sight?Internal medicine journal · 2025Review
23 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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14 authors at 10 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
Talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) is a herpes simplex virus type 1-based intralesional oncolytic immunotherapy approved for the treatment of unresectable melanoma. The present, ongoing study aimed to estimate the treatment effect of neoadjuvant T-VEC on recurrence-free survival (RFS) of patients with advanced resectable melanoma. An open-label, phase 2 trial (NCT02211131) was conducted in 150 patients with resectable stage IIIB-IVM1a melanoma who were randomized to receive T-VEC followed by surgery (arm 1, n = 76) or surgery alone (arm 2, n = 74). The primary endpoint was a 2-year RFS in the intention-to-treat population. Secondary and exploratory endpoints included overall survival (OS), pathological complete response (pCR), safety and biomarker analyses. The 2-year RFS was 29.5% in arm 1 and 16.5% in arm 2 (overall hazard ratio (HR) = 0.75, 80% confidence interval (CI) = 0.58-0.96). The 2-year OS was 88.9% for arm 1 and 77.4% for arm 2 (overall HR = 0.49, 80% CI = 0.30-0.79). The RFS and OS differences between arms persisted at 3 years. In arm 1, 17.1% achieved a pCR. Increased CD8
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