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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 4.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Cancer Res. 2018;139:1–33. doi: 10.1016/bs.acr.2018.04.001

Table 2.

Current Clinical Trials Based on Exosomes in Cancer

Title Recruitment Cancer Interventions
Exosomes as potential prognostic and predictive biomarkers Unknown status Gastric cancer
Urinary exosome for cancer diagnosis Completed Prostate cancer Other: ExoIntelliScore Prostate
Exosome-mediated intercellular signaling Recruiting Pancreatic cancer ∣ Benign pancreatic disease
Vaccination trial with dendritic cell-derived exosomes Unknown status Nonsmall cell lung cancer Biological: Dex2
Plant exosomes to deliver curcumin to normal and cancer tissue Active, not recruiting Colon cancer Dietary supplement: curcumin ∣ Dietary supplement: Curcumin conjugated with plant exosomes ∣ Other: No intervention
Edible plant exosome ability to prevent oral Recruiting mucositis associated with chemoradiation treatment Head and neck cancer ∣ Oral mucositis Dietary supplement: Grape extract ∣ Drug: Lortab, fentanyl patch, mouthwash
Tumor-derived exosomes as diagnostic and Withdrawn prognostic markers Breast neoplasms
Metformin hydrochloride affecting cytokines and exosomes in cancer Recruiting Larynx ∣ Lip ∣ Oral cavity ∣ Pharynx Radiation: External beam radiation therapy ∣ Drug: Metformin hydrochloride ∣ Other: Placebo
Screening for human papillomaviruspositive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma Recruiting Oropharyngeal cancer
Diagnostic accuracy of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and onco-exosome Recruiting Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) Procedure: Blood samples ∣ Procedure: Portal vein blood sample
Consistency analysis of PD-L1 in cancer tissue and plasma exosome Not yet recruiting NSCLC Other: Liquid biopsy
Consistency analysis of PD-L1 in lung cancer tissue and plasma exosome before and after radiotherapy Not yet recruiting NSCLC Radiation: Radiotherapy
Circulating exosome RNA in lung metastases of primary high-grade osteosarcoma Recruiting Lung metastases ∣ Osteosarcoma Other: Blood samples
Anaplastic thyroid cancer and follicular thyroid cancer-derived exosomal analysis via treatment of lovastatin and vildagliptin and Pilot Prognostic Study via urine exosomal biological markers in thyroid cancer patients Not yet recruiting Thyroid cancer
ncRNAs in exosomes of cholangio carcinoma Recruiting Cholangiocarcinoma ∣ Benign biliary stricture