<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001129928-25-000079.txt : 20250929
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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001129928-25-000079
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	6-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20250929
FILED AS OF DATE:		20250929
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20250929

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			ONCOLYTICS BIOTECH INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001129928
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS [2834]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	03 Life Sciences
		EIN:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		6-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-38512
		FILM NUMBER:		251352532

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		804, 322 - 11 AVENUE SW
		CITY:			CALGARY
		STATE:			A0
		ZIP:			T2R 0C5
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4036707380

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		STREET 1:		804, 322 - 11 AVENUE SW
		CITY:			CALGARY
		STATE:			A0
		ZIP:			T2R 0C5
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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i73c2b241ada2420089c0a1b7edc7ff02_1"></div><div style="min-height:42.75pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Washington, D.C. 20549</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:18pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Form 6-K</font></div><div><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:10pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#160;</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New 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<title>Document</title></head><body><div id="i3606339142284613bd70ff7520b11abd_1"></div><div style="min-height:82.08pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Oncolytics Biotech</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.15pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-3.85pt;vertical-align:baseline">&#174;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%"> Announces Update for Potential First-Line Pancreatic Cancer Registration Study</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">SAN DIEGO, CA, September 29, 2025 &#8211;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Oncolytics Biotech</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:7.15pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;position:relative;top:-3.85pt;vertical-align:baseline">&#174;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%"> Inc. (Nasdaq&#58; ONCY) (&#8220;Oncolytics&#8221; or the &#8220;Company&#8221;), a clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing pelareorep, today announced an update on the proposed design of its planned registration-directed clinical trial in first-line pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). The Company is currently scheduled to meet with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in mid-November 2025 to advance study details.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Key Elements of the Proposed Registration Study</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Three-arm design - patients will be randomized to receive&#58;</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;padding-left:54pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">1.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:9.75pt">Gemcitabine + nab-paclitaxel (GnP) control arm.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;padding-left:54pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">2.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:9.75pt">GnP + pelareorep.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;padding-left:54pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">3.</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:9.75pt">GnP + pelareorep + checkpoint inhibitor (CPI).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Primary endpoint&#58; Overall Survival (OS).</font></div><div style="margin-bottom:4pt;padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Statistical rigor&#58; The trial will be powered to detect statistical significance between the investigational arms and the control arm.</font></div><div style="padding-left:36pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18pt"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:9pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8226;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%;padding-left:14.85pt">Planned interim analysis&#58; An interim efficacy analysis will be incorporated to enable early assessment of potential clinical benefit.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">This proposed design builds on a post-hoc, pooled clinical analysis, which found that the addition of pelareorep to chemotherapy achieved an approximate 22% two-year survival rate, compared to just 9% for patients treated with chemotherapy alone, as in historical, third-party benchmarks  (link to the PR).</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#8220;We are excited to advance this potential registration-directed study in first-line pancreatic cancer with a well-powered, three-arm design,&#8221; said Jared Kelly, Chief Executive Officer of Oncolytics. &#8220;By evaluating pelareorep with chemotherapy and in combination with checkpoint inhibition, we expect to position this program to deliver meaningful data for patients and regulators alike. We believe that potential partners will recognize the possibility this trial design presents to establish pelareorep as the first approved immunotherapy in first-line pancreatic cancer - a transformative milestone in oncology.&#8221;</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">About Oncolytics Biotech Inc.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Oncolytics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing pelareorep, an investigational intravenously delivered double-stranded RNA immunotherapeutic agent. Pelareorep has demonstrated encouraging results in multiple first-line pancreatic cancer studies, two randomized Phase 2 studies in metastatic breast cancer, and early-phase studies in anal and colorectal cancer. It is designed to induce anti-cancer immune responses by converting immunologically &#8220;cold&#8221; tumors &#8220;hot&#8221; through the activation of innate and adaptive immune responses.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">The Company is advancing pelareorep in combination with chemotherapy and&#47;or checkpoint inhibitors in metastatic pancreatic and breast cancers, of which both development programs have received Fast Track designation from the FDA, and other gastrointestinal tumors. Oncolytics is actively pursuing strategic partnerships to accelerate development and maximize commercial impact. For more about Oncolytics, please visit&#58;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">&#160;</font><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">www.oncolyticsbiotech.com or follow the Company on social media on LinkedIn and on X &#64;oncolytics.</font></div><div style="height:64.8pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div><hr style="page-break-after:always"><div style="min-height:82.08pt;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Forward-looking statements</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-style:italic;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">This press release contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and forward-looking information under applicable Canadian securities laws (such forward-looking statements and forward-looking information are collectively referred to herein as &#8220;forward-looking statements&#8221;). Forward-looking statements contained in this press release include statements regarding beliefs as to the potential, registration, mechanism of action and benefits of pelareorep as a cancer therapeutic&#59; expectations regarding the outcome of an upcoming regulatory meeting, including in relation to the Company&#8217;s proposed design of a potential pancreatic cancer registration study&#59; Oncolytics&#8217; plan to continue actively pursuing strategic partnerships&#59; its goals, strategies and objectives&#59; its expectations regarding the efficacy, enrollment, and results of pelareorep in future studies, as well as the design, timing, and recognition of and partnerships for future studies&#59; and its belief in the clinical promise of pelareorep in metastatic pancreatic and other gastrointestinal cancers. In any forward-looking statement in which Oncolytics expresses an expectation or belief as to future results, such expectations or beliefs are expressed in good faith and are believed to have a reasonable basis, but there can be no assurance that the statement or expectation or belief will be achieved. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These risks include, but are not limited to, regulatory outcomes, trial execution, financial resources, access to capital markets, and market dynamics. Please refer to Oncolytics&#8217; public filings with securities regulators in the United States and Canada for more information. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements, except as required by law.</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Company Contact </font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Jon Patton</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Director of IR &#38; Communication</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">jpatton&#64;oncolytics.ca</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Investor Relations for Oncolytics</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Mike Moyer</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">LifeSci Advisors</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">+1-617-308-4306</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">mmoyer&#64;lifesciadvisors.com</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font><br></font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:700;line-height:120%">Media Contact for Oncolytics</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">Owen Blaschak</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">LifeSci Communications</font></div><div style="text-align:justify"><font style="color:#000000;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:120%">oblaschak&#64;lifescicomms.com</font></div><div style="height:64.8pt;position:relative;width:100%"><div style="bottom:0;position:absolute;width:100%"><div><font><br></font></div></div></div></body></html>
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