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Cyclophosphamide Allows for In vivo Dose Reduction of a Potent Oncolytic Virus

Dardinger Center for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbus, Ohio

Requests for reprints: E. Antonio Chiocca, Dardinger Center for Neuro-oncology and Neurosciences, Department of Neurological Surgery, The Ohio State University Medical Center Comprehensive Cancer Center, James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute, N-1017 Doan Hall, 410 West 10th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210. Phone: 614-293-9312; Fax: 614-293-4024; E-mail: Chiocca-1{at}medctr.osu.edu.

The success of cancer virotherapy depends on its efficacy versus toxicity profile in human clinical trials. Progress towards clinical trials can be hampered by the relatively elevated doses of oncolytic viruses administered in animal models to achieve an anticancer effect and by the even higher doses required in humans to approximate an animal bioequivalent dose. Such elevated doses of injected viral proteins may also lead to undesirable toxicities and are also very difficult to produce in a biotechnological setting. We report that a relatively potent herpes simplex virus type 1 oncolytic virus (rQNestin34.5) produces 45% survivors at a dose of 3 x 10⁴ plaque-forming units (pfu) in a 9-day-old mouse model of human glioma. Unlike our previous findings with less potent oncolytic viruses, though, the preadministration of cyclophosphamide did not enhance this survival or affect oncolytic virus tumor distribution and tumor volume. However, when oncolytic virus doses were reduced (3 x 10³ and 3 x 10² pfu), cyclophosphamide significantly enhanced both animal survival and oncolytic virus tumor distribution and also reduced tumor volumes. These findings thus show that cyclophosphamide allows for dose reduction of doses of a relatively potent oncolytic virus, a finding with implications for the development of clinical trials. (Cancer Res 2005; 65(24): 11255-8)

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