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Table 3 Clinical trials of EVs for development of anticancer treatment

From: Recent advances in conventional and unconventional vesicular secretion pathways in the tumor microenvironment

Cancer type

Title of the trial

Phase

State

Number of participants

ClinicalTrials.gov identifier

Lung Cancer

Phase II trial of a vaccination with tumor antigen-loaded dendritic cell-derived exosomes on patients with unresectable non-small cell lung cancer responding to induction chemotherapy

II

Completed

41

NCT01159288 [187]

Pancreatic Cancer

Phase I study of mesenchymal stromal cells-derived exosomes with KrasG12D siRNA for metastatic pancreas cancer patients harboring KrasG12D mutation

I

Ongoing

Recruiting

NCT03608631 [186]

Colon Cancer

Phase I clinical trial investigating the ability of plant exosomes to deliver curcumin to normal and malignant colon tissue

I

Ongoing

Recruiting

NCT01294072

Head and Neck Cancer

Preliminary clinical trial investigating the ability of plant exosomes to abrogate oral mucositis induced by combined chemotherapy and radiation in head and neck cancer patients

I

Ongoing

60

NCT01668849