New role of Interleukin-10 in enhancing the antitumor efficacy of oncolytic vaccinia virus for treatment of pancreatic cancer.

Although the profile of safety of tumor-targeted oncolytic virus (TOV) is encouraging, the antitumor efficacy of TOV alone is disappointing. Interleukin-10 (IL-10) plays an important role in carcinogenesis and anti-virus immunity. Here we report that tumor-targeted oncolytic vaccinia virus (VV) armed with IL10 shows promising potential for treatment of pancreatic cancer (PaCa).