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Study of T-VEC in Locally Advanced Cutaneous Angiosarcoma

A Phase 2 interventional study of T-VEC in Angiosarcoma of Skin, sponsored by H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute. Terminated at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2022-11-01.

Sponsored by H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute · Phase 2, Interventional, and Treatment

Why this study was terminated
Sponsor Terminated Funding
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
5
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This is a single-arm study evaluating the efficacy of injecting Talimogene Laherparepvec T-VEC into Cutaneous Angiosarcoma tumors.

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Conditions studied

  • Angiosarcoma of Skin

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Keywords

  • Cutaneous
  • Angiosarcoma
  • Skin
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In context

Hemangiosarcoma

99 studies on the registry are indexed under Hemangiosarcoma; 16 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 5 is below the median of 64 across 83 interventional studies indexed under Hemangiosarcoma.

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Lead sponsor

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute is the lead sponsor of 540 studies on the registry; 75 are open to participants now.

Of its 99 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 57 (58%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Go through the criteria one by one — yes, no or not sure — and take the list to your doctor or the study team. Kept in this browser only.

Inclusion criteria

  • Participants must have confirmed CA without visceral or , with resection deemed of no benefit by technical or oncologic principles, and have progressed on at least one
  • Participants must have , defined as at least one lesion that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded by digital photography) as >6 mm with calipers or a ruler.
  • performance status 0-1 ( >70%).
  • Participants must have normal organ and marrow function as defined below:
  • Hematological
  • > 1500/mm3 (1.5x109/L)
  • count >75,000/mm3 (7.5x109/L)
  • >8 g/dL (without need for hematopoietic growth factor or transfusion support)
  • Renal
  • Serum creatinine ≤1.5 x (ULN), OR 24-hour >60 mL/min for subject with creatinine levels > 1.5 x ULN. (Note: Creatinine clearance need not be determined if the baseline serum creatinine is ≤1.5 x ULN. . Creatinine clearance should be determined per institutional standard).
  • Hepatic
  • Serum ≤1.5 x ULN OR direct bilirubin ≤ ULN for a subject with total bilirubin level > 1.5 x ULN
  • (AST) ≤2.5 x ULN OR \<5 x ULN, if liver present and injection does not involve a visceral lesion
  • Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤2.5 x ULN OR \<5 x ULN, if liver metastases present and injection does not involve a visceral lesion
  • Coagulation
  • International normalization ratio () or prothrombin time (PT) ≤1.5 x ULN, unless the subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy, in which case PT and partial thromboplastin time (PTT)/ activated PTT (aPTT) must be within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants.
  • PTT or aPTT ≤1.5 x ULN, unless the subject is receiving anticoagulant therapy as long as PT and PTT/aPTT is within therapeutic range of intended use of anticoagulants.- Female subjects of should have a negative urine or serum pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to enrollment. If urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participants with a second active , exceptions are localized non-melanoma skin cancers or in situ carcinoma
  • Participants receiving any other agents
  • Participants with tumor(s) in direct contact or encasing a major blood vessel, those with ulceration and/or fungation onto the skin surface, and those with history of re-irradiation or prior lymph node neck dissection to a field involving the carotid arteries
  • History or evidence of active disease that requires systemic treatment (ie, with use of disease modifying agents, or drugs). Replacement therapy (eg, thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc.) is not considered a form of systemic treatment.
  • Evidence of immunosuppression such as the following:
  • Primary immunodeficiency state such as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease.
  • concurrent opportunistic infection.
  • receiving systemic immunosuppressive therapy (> 2 weeks) including oral steroid doses > 10 mg/day of prednisone or equivalent within 7 days prior to enrollment.
  • Active herpetic skin lesions or prior complications of HSV-1 infection (e.g., herpetic keratitis or encephalitis).
  • Requires intermittent or chronic systemic (intravenous or oral) treatment with an antiherpetic drug (e.g., acyclovir), other than intermittent topical use.
  • Previous treatment with talimogene laherparepvec or any other oncolytic virus.
  • Prior therapy with tumor vaccine.
  • Received within 28 days prior to enrollment.
  • Prior immunosuppressive, chemotherapy, radiotherapy (in which the field encompassed a planned injection site), biological cancer therapy, or major surgery within 28 days prior to enrollment or has not recovered to grade 1 or better from adverse event due to cancer therapy administered more than 28 days prior to enrollment.
  • Prior radiotherapy in which the field does not overlap the injection sites or non-immunosuppressive targeted therapy within 14 days prior to enrollment or has not recovered to CTCAE grade 1 or better from adverse event due to cancer therapy administered more than 14 days prior to enrollment
  • Currently receiving treatment with another investigational device or drug study, or \< 28 days since ending treatment with another investigational device or drug study(s).
  • Other investigational procedures while participating in this study are excluded.
  • Known to have acute or chronic active infection, infection, or (HIV) infection.
  • History of other malignancy within the past 5 years with the following exceptions: adequately treated non melanoma skin cancer, cervical carcinoma in situ, breast ductal carcinoma in situ, or prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia without evidence of disease at the time of enrollment
  • Participant has known sensitivity to talimogene laherparepvec or any of its components to be administered during dosing.
  • Female subject is pregnant or breast-feeding, or planning to become pregnant during study treatment and through 3 months after the last dose of talimogene laherparepvec.
  • Female subject of who is unwilling to use acceptable method(s) of effective during study treatment and through 3 months after the last dose of talimogene laherparepvec.
  • Sexually active subjects and their partners unwilling to use male or female latex condom to avoid potential viral transmission during sexual contact while on treatment and within 30 days after treatment with talimogene laherparepvec.
  • Participants who are unwilling to minimize exposure with his/her blood or other body fluids to individuals who are at higher risks for HSV-1 induced complications such as immunosuppressed individuals, individuals known to have HIV infection, pregnant women, or infants under the age of 3 months, during talimogene laherparepvec treatment and through 30 days after the last dose of talimogene laherparepvec.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(28)

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).

Your pathology report is the document that shows this.

Brain metastases

Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).

Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.

Line of therapy

A line of therapy is one course of treatment, which may combine several drugs. First-line is the first course given; second-line follows when that stops working or is not tolerated.

“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Karnofsky performance status (KPS)

A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.

Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.

Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)

The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.

It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.

Platelets

Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

ULN (upper limit of normal)

The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.

“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.

Creatinine clearance (CrCl)

How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.

Bilirubin

A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.

Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.

ALT and AST (liver enzymes)

Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.

Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.

Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

INR, PT and aPTT (clotting tests)

Blood tests of how long blood takes to clot. The INR is the prothrombin time (PT) put on a common scale; about 1 is usual for someone not taking a blood thinner.

Criteria often make an exception for people on a blood thinner such as warfarin, whose INR is raised on purpose.

Childbearing potential

Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).

Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

Live vaccines

Vaccines made with a weakened form of the germ, such as measles–mumps–rubella (MMR), chickenpox and yellow fever. They can be risky when the immune system is weakened. Flu injections are not live; the nasal flu spray is.

CTCAE grade

The US National Cancer Institute’s scale of how severe an adverse event is — any unwanted medical event during a study, such as a symptom, an illness or an abnormal test result, whether or not a treatment caused it. Whether it did is judged separately.

1
Mild.
2
Moderate.
3
Severe.
4
Life-threatening.
5
Death due to the event.

“Side effects of earlier treatment resolved to grade 1 or less” means they have settled to mild or gone.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
5 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intralesional injection of T-VEC

    Participants will undergo intralesional injections of up to 4 cc of 10\^6 plaque-forming units (PFU)/mL of T-VEC. Dose is dependent on the diameter of the lesions to be injected (volume injected is related to diameter of lesion(s) at time point 0). Three weeks later and every other week thereafter, the participants will be injected with up to 4 cc of 10\^8 PFU/mL, with dose dependent on the diameter of the lesion(s) to be injected. Participants may be treated for up to 12 months.

    Drug: T-VEC

Interventions

  • DrugT-VEC

    Participants will receive intralesional injections of T-VEC of up to 4cc. Dosing of T-VEC is dependent of the size of the lesion.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Overall Response Rate

    Overall response rate is defined as the proportion of patients who demonstrate complete or partial responses in injected lesions per modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria appropriate for cutaneous neoplasms (ORR=complete response + partial response).

    Time frame: at 24 Weeks

Secondary outcomes

  1. Duration of Response

    Response duration will be measured from the time of initial partial response or complete response until documented progression. The duration of overall response is measured from the time measurement criteria are met for Complete Response or Partial Response (whichever is first recorded) until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease is objectively documented (taking as reference for progressive disease the smallest measurements recorded since the treatment started).

    Time frame: at 4 weeks

  2. Progression-free Survival

    Progression-free survival is defined as the period of time from the first injection to progression of disease or appearance of new cutaneous angiosarcomas that were not present at the time of study entry

    Time frame: up to 2 years

  3. Complete Response Rate

    Complete response rate is defined as the proportion of participants that have lesions with complete clinical regression

    Time frame: Baseline to 2 years

  4. T-VEC Treated Tumors Requiring Surgical Resection

    Measuring the rate of participants requiring surgical resection of T-VEC treated lesions

    Time frame: Baseline to 2 years

  5. Analyses of Immune Infiltration Within Resected Tumor Specimens

    Measuring the degree of immune infiltration in surgically resected T-VEC treated tumors

    Time frame: Baseline to 2 years

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Results

Posted Nov 1, 2022

Participant flow

Participant flow — Overall Study
MilestoneIntralesional Injection of T-VEC
Started5
Completed5
Not completed0

Outcome measures

PrimaryOverall Response Rate

Overall response rate is defined as the proportion of patients who demonstrate complete or partial responses in injected lesions per modified Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria appropriate for cutaneous neoplasms (ORR=complete response + partial response).

Time frame:
at 24 Weeks

No measurements were reported for this outcome.

SecondaryDuration of Response

Response duration will be measured from the time of initial partial response or complete response until documented progression. The duration of overall response is measured from the time measurement criteria are met for Complete Response or Partial Response (whichever is first recorded) until the first date that recurrent or progressive disease is objectively documented (taking as reference for progressive disease the smallest measurements recorded since the treatment started).

Time frame:
at 4 weeks

No measurements were reported for this outcome.

SecondaryProgression-free Survival

Progression-free survival is defined as the period of time from the first injection to progression of disease or appearance of new cutaneous angiosarcomas that were not present at the time of study entry

Time frame:
up to 2 years

No measurements were reported for this outcome.

SecondaryComplete Response Rate

Complete response rate is defined as the proportion of participants that have lesions with complete clinical regression

Time frame:
Baseline to 2 years

No measurements were reported for this outcome.

SecondaryT-VEC Treated Tumors Requiring Surgical Resection

Measuring the rate of participants requiring surgical resection of T-VEC treated lesions

Time frame:
Baseline to 2 years

No measurements were reported for this outcome.

SecondaryAnalyses of Immune Infiltration Within Resected Tumor Specimens

Measuring the degree of immune infiltration in surgically resected T-VEC treated tumors

Time frame:
Baseline to 2 years

No measurements were reported for this outcome.

Adverse events

Collected over Adverse events collected from date on treatment to 30 days after off treatment date, for an average of 9 months. Non-serious events are listed at a 0% frequency threshold.

Adverse event summary by group
GroupDeathsSeriousOther
Intralesional Injection of T-VEC0/5 (0%)0/5 (0%)5/5 (100%)
Most frequent other events
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Most frequent other events
EventIntralesional Injection of T-VEC
FatigueGeneral disorders4/5
FeverGeneral disorders3/5
Flu like symptomsGeneral disorders3/5
Injection site painGeneral disorders3/5
Blood and lymphatic system disorders - Other, specifyBlood and lymphatic system disorders2/5
ChillsGeneral disorders2/5
HyperglycemiaMetabolism and nutrition disorders2/5
HeadacheNervous system disorders2/5
Periorbital edemaEye disorders1/5
ToothacheGastrointestinal disorders1/5

Baseline characteristics

Age, Categorical
Age, Categorical(Participants)Intralesional Injection of T-VEC
<=18 years0
Between 18 and 65 years1
>=65 years4
Sex: Female, Male
Sex: Female, Male(Participants)Intralesional Injection of T-VEC
Female4
Male1
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)
Ethnicity (NIH/OMB)(Participants)Intralesional Injection of T-VEC
Hispanic or Latino0
Not Hispanic or Latino5
Unknown or Not Reported0
Race (NIH/OMB)
Race (NIH/OMB)(Participants)Intralesional Injection of T-VEC
American Indian or Alaska Native0
Asian0
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander0
Black or African American0
White5
More than one race0
Unknown or Not Reported0
Region of Enrollment
Region of Enrollment(participants)Intralesional Injection of T-VEC
United States5
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Study locations

1 site
  • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
    Tampa, Florida 33612, United States
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References and documents

Study documents

PDFs hosted by the registry, ClinicalTrials.gov.

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Nov 1, 2022, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT03921073
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Apr 19, 2019
Start date
Aug 20, 2019
Primary completion
Sep 28, 2021
Completion
Sep 28, 2021
Results posted
Nov 1, 2022
Last update
Nov 1, 2022

Study contacts

John Mullinax, MD,
principal investigator · H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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