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Interleukin-12 Cancer Trial Halted After Patient Dies

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 3rd, 1995

A multicenter study of Interleukin-12 (IL-12) was halted while researchers tried to determine why one patient died and 11 more were hospitalized with "adverse reactions."

IL-12 is a naturally occurring cytokine that is genetically engineered and produced by Genetics Institute Inc. (GI), of Cambridge, Massachusetts. IL-12 has shown promise as a treatment for cancer, AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and was being clinically tested in a trial of kidney cancer patients.

The multicenter study was put on hold June 8, 1995, when two of seventeen patients were hospitalized. According to a news story in Science (June 16, 1995;268(5217):1555), one of the two...

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