Oncolytic viruses are smart therapeutics against cancer due to their potential to replicate and produce the needed therapeutic dose in the tumor, and to their ability to self-exhaust upon tumor clearance. Oncolytic virotherapy strategies based on the herpes simplex virus are reaching their thirties, and a wide variety of approaches has been envisioned and tested in many different models, and on a range of tumor targets. This huge effort has culminated in the primacy of an oncolytic HSV (oHSV) being the first oncolytic virus to be approved by the FDA and EMA for clinical use, for the treatment of advanced melanoma. The path has just been opened; many more cancer types with poor prognosis await effective and innovative therapies, and oHSVs could provide a promising solution, especially as combination therapies and immunovirotherapies. In this review, we analyze the most recent advances in this field, and try to envision the future ahead of oHSVs.

Menotti L., Avitabile E. (2020). Herpes simplex virus oncolytic immunovirotherapy: The blossoming branch of multimodal therapy. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, 21(21), 1-26 [10.3390/ijms21218310].

Herpes simplex virus oncolytic immunovirotherapy: The blossoming branch of multimodal therapy

Menotti L.
;
Avitabile E.
2020

Abstract

Oncolytic viruses are smart therapeutics against cancer due to their potential to replicate and produce the needed therapeutic dose in the tumor, and to their ability to self-exhaust upon tumor clearance. Oncolytic virotherapy strategies based on the herpes simplex virus are reaching their thirties, and a wide variety of approaches has been envisioned and tested in many different models, and on a range of tumor targets. This huge effort has culminated in the primacy of an oncolytic HSV (oHSV) being the first oncolytic virus to be approved by the FDA and EMA for clinical use, for the treatment of advanced melanoma. The path has just been opened; many more cancer types with poor prognosis await effective and innovative therapies, and oHSVs could provide a promising solution, especially as combination therapies and immunovirotherapies. In this review, we analyze the most recent advances in this field, and try to envision the future ahead of oHSVs.
2020
Menotti L., Avitabile E. (2020). Herpes simplex virus oncolytic immunovirotherapy: The blossoming branch of multimodal therapy. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES, 21(21), 1-26 [10.3390/ijms21218310].
Menotti L.; Avitabile E.
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