Oncolytics Biotech Collaborates with SOLTI to Conduct a Window of Opportunity Study in Breast Cancer with Pelareorep

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (NASDAQ:ONCY) (TSX:ONC), currently developing REOLYSIN (pelareorep), an intravenously delivered immuno-oncolytic virus turning cold tumors hot, today announced a clinical collaboration with SOLTI, an academic research group dedicated to clinical and translational research in breast cancer.

As quoted in the press release:

This clinical collaboration, being sponsored by Oncolytics and facilitated by SOLTI, is a window of opportunity study (WOO) in the neoadjuvant setting for breast cancer. Patients will receive the appropriate standard of care for their cancer subtype plus pelareorep with or without the anti-PD-L1 cancer immunotherapy atezolizumab (Tecentriq^®). Patients are biopsied on day one, followed immediately by treatment and a final biopsy after three weeks, on the day of their mastectomy. Data generated from this study is intended to confirm that the virus is acting as a novel immunotherapy and to provide comprehensive biomarker data by breast cancer sub-type, to support Oncolytics’ phase 3 study in metastatic breast cancer and is expected in mid 2019.

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