Table 4 Intratumoral injection of C. novyi-NT for cancer therapy

From: Intratumoral microbiota: roles in cancer initiation, development and therapeutic efficacy

Classification

Therapeutic strategy

Phase

Tumor type

Effect

Ref

Pre-clinical

Intratumoral injection

NA

Spontaneous solid tumors

Well tolerated, objective response was 37.5%

212

Branched gold nanoparticle-coated spores

Prostate cancer

Significant antitumor response

213

Clinical treatment/trial

Intratumoral injection

I

Injectable, treatment-refractory solid tumors

Significant but manageable toxicity, tumor-confined cell lysis, and enhance systemic tumor-specific T-cell responses

NCT01924689214

I

Treatment-refractory solid tumor malignancies

No results posted

NCT00358397

I

Treatment-refractory solid tumor malignancies

No results posted

NCT01118819

I

Advanced leiomyosarcoma

Reduction of tumor burden, killed and necrotized tumor cells

NCT01924689212

I

Treatment-refractory solid tumors

No results posted

NCT03435952