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Letters to Editor


Nature Medicine 4, 1341 - 1342 (1998)
doi:10.1038/3902

ONYX-015: Clinical data are encouraging

David Kirn1, Terry Hermiston2 & Frank McCormick3

  1. Vice President, Clinical Research
  2. Scientist, Virology Onyx Pharmaceuticals 3031 Research Drive Richmond, CA 94806
  3. Director, Cancer Center University of California, San Francisco 2340 Sutter Street San Francisco, CA 94115

To the editor—In the September issue of Nature Medicine, Hall et al. published an article1 challenging the utility of E1B, 55-kDa-deficient adenoviruses in tumor therapy, with particular emphasis on our ONYX-015 virus. They reached very different conclusions than our earlier work2, 3, showing that this virus specifically targets p53-deficient cells.