PMID- 23863356 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20131227 LR - 20190221 IS - 1095-6859 (Electronic) IS - 0090-8258 (Linking) VI - 131 IP - 1 DP - 2013 Oct TI - Phase I trial of a formulated IL-12 plasmid in combination with carboplatin and docetaxel chemotherapy in the treatment of platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer. PG - 169-73 LID - S0090-8258(13)00996-7 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.07.081 [doi] AB - OBJECTIVES: The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the safety and tolerability of a formulated IL-12 plasmid administered intraperitoneally (IP) in conjunction with intravenous (IV) carboplatin/docetaxel in platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer patients. METHODS: Escalating doses of IL-12 plasmid (phIL-12) formulated with the lipopolymer PEG-PEI-Cholesterol (PPC) were administered IP every 10-11 days for a total of four treatments and the highest dose was expanded to eight treatments. Patients also received IV carboplatin (AUC 5) and docetaxel (75 mg/m(2)) every 21 days. Patients were followed for safety, biological activity and antitumor activity after phIL-12/PPC treatment. RESULTS: All 13 patients enrolled in the study received both phIL-12/PPC and chemotherapy treatment. There were 49 plasmid-associated adverse events (AEs). The most common AEs were abdominal pain, transient hypotension, low grade fever, catheter site pain, chills, dysgeusia, infusion-related reaction, and nausea. These AEs appeared to be plasmid dose related. Grade 3 AEs included manageable abdominal pain and cytokine release syndrome. There were no dose limiting toxicities and the plasmid treatment did not augment the chemotherapy-associated AEs. The best overall antitumor response (17% CR, 33% PR, 42% SD and 8% PD) was typical of the patient population enrolled for the study. Translational studies showed rise in IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha concentrations in a dose dependent manner. CONCLUSIONS: The escalating doses and cycles of intraperitoneal phIL-12/PPC when combined with carboplatin/docetaxel chemotherapy in recurrent ovarian cancer patients were well tolerated and did not appear to exacerbate the side effects or attenuate the efficacy of the chemotherapy treatment. CI - (c) 2013. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Anwer, Khursheed AU - Anwer K AD - EGEN, Inc., Huntsville, AL, USA. Electronic address: kanwer@egeninc.com. FAU - Kelly, F Joseph AU - Kelly FJ FAU - Chu, Christina AU - Chu C FAU - Fewell, Jason G AU - Fewell JG FAU - Lewis, Danny AU - Lewis D FAU - Alvarez, Ronald D AU - Alvarez RD LA - eng GR - 1R01FD003374-01/FD/FDA HHS/United States PT - Clinical Trial, Phase I PT - Journal Article PT - Multicenter Study PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural DEP - 20130714 PL - United States TA - Gynecol Oncol JT - Gynecologic oncology JID - 0365304 RN - 0 (Taxoids) RN - 15H5577CQD (Docetaxel) RN - 187348-17-0 (Interleukin-12) RN - BG3F62OND5 (Carboplatin) SB - IM EIN - Gynecol Oncol. 2014 Jul;134(1):216 MH - Abdominal Pain/chemically induced MH - Aged MH - Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols/*adverse effects/therapeutic use MH - Carboplatin/administration & dosage MH - Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial MH - Chills/chemically induced MH - Docetaxel MH - Dysgeusia/chemically induced MH - Female MH - Fever/chemically induced MH - Genetic Therapy MH - Humans MH - Hypotension/chemically induced MH - Interleukin-12/administration & dosage/*adverse effects/genetics MH - Middle Aged MH - Nausea/chemically induced MH - Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial/*drug therapy MH - Ovarian Neoplasms/*drug therapy MH - Plasmids/administration & dosage MH - Taxoids/administration & dosage OTO - NOTNLM OT - Chemotherapy OT - Gene therapy OT - Interleukin-12 OT - Ovarian cancer OT - Plasmid DNA EDAT- 2013/07/19 06:00 MHDA- 2013/12/29 06:00 CRDT- 2013/07/19 06:00 PHST- 2013/04/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2013/07/01 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2013/07/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2013/07/19 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2013/07/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2013/12/29 06:00 [medline] AID - S0090-8258(13)00996-7 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.07.081 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Gynecol Oncol. 2013 Oct;131(1):169-73. doi: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2013.07.081. Epub 2013 Jul 14.