Clinical Oncology: Case Reports

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Gerald Batist Author

gerald.batist@mcgill.ca 514-340-8222

Subjects of specialization
cancer, cancer oncology, Carcinogenesis

Affiliation
McGill Centre for Translational Research in Cancer, Segal Cancer Centre, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, U.S.A.

Biography

Gerald Batist is working as Director, Dept. of Oncology (Segal Cancer Centre), Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital Director, McGill University Centre for Translational Research in Cancer Professor, Department of Oncology, McGill University"

Publications

Case Report Open Access

Orally Administered Multiple Dose Saltikva (Salmonella-IL2) in Conjunction with Folfirinox in a Patient with Stage IV Pancreatic Cancer: A Case Report

Author(s):

Gerald Batist, Joo Yeoun Park, Jeremy Drees, Takashi Kangas and Daniel Saltzman* (USA)

Compassionate use of Saltikva was sought for a patient with stage 4, metastatic pancreatic cancer. Approval was granted for an n=1 multiple dose (every 2 week) trial with concomitant FOLFIRINOX. Now, at 15 months, this patient has not experienced any toxicity to Saltikva, continues therapy, has normalized CA19-9 levels, maintained her immunologic cell populations despite cytotoxic chemotherapy, demonstrated a strong NK cell response, and has a radiologic regression of metastatic tumor burden with a complete absence of tumor activity by PET scan. 

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