Paradigm change in first-line treatment of recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

E Borcoman, G Marret, C Le Tourneau - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Immunotherapy has made a breakthrough in the treatment of patients with
recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in the second line …

Radiation dose, schedule, and novel systemic targets for radio-immunotherapy combinations

L Karapetyan, UK Iheagwara, AC Olson… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Immunotherapy combinations are being investigated to expand the benefit of immune
checkpoint blockade across many cancer types. Radiation combinations, in particular using …

[HTML][HTML] Defining the role of immunotherapy in the curative treatment of locoregionally advanced head and neck cancer: promises, challenges, and opportunities

R Saddawi-Konefka, AB Simon, W Sumner… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recent advancements in the development of immunotherapies have raised the hope for
patients with locally-advanced HNSCC (LA-HNSCC) to achieve improved oncologic …

[HTML][HTML] Immune checkpoint inhibitors in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: A systematic review of phase-3 clinical trials

JV Poulose, CT Kainickal - World Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND The outcomes of patients diagnosed with head and neck squamous cell
carcinoma (HNSCC) who are not candidates for local salvage therapy and of those …

Combining the past and present to advance immuno-radiotherapy of cancer

IM Koukourakis, MI Koukourakis - International Reviews of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Since its first clinical application, 120 years ago, radiotherapy evolved into a major anti-
cancer treatment modality, offering high cure rates in many human malignancies. During the …

Radiotherapy and immunotherapy combinations in the treatment of patients with metastatic disease: current status and future focus

WT Turchan, SP Pitroda, RR Weichselbaum - Clinical Cancer Research, 2021 - AACR
Radiotherapy and immunotherapy benefit subsets of patients with metastatic cancer. Here,
we review selected laboratory and clinical studies investigating the utility of combining …

Targeted therapy as a potential de-escalation strategy in locally advanced HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer: a literature review

L Chitsike, PJ Duerksen-Hughes - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The treatment landscape of locally advanced HPV-oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
(OPSCC) is undergoing transformation. This is because the high cures rates observed in …

[HTML][HTML] Repurposing radiation therapy for immuno-oncology

J Tang, B Malachowska, X Wu, C Guha - Clinical Oncology, 2021 - Elsevier
Radiation therapy is traditionally used for the local control of tumour growth, but recent
studies suggest that radiation therapy can have immunomodulatory properties that can be …

[HTML][HTML] A predictive biophysical model of the combined action of radiation therapy and immunotherapy of cancer

T Friedrich, M Scholz, M Durante - International Journal of Radiation …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose Immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors has an enormous potential in therapy of
metastatic cancers. Immunotherapy is generally combined with local treatments, such as …

Translational Frontiers and Clinical Opportunities of Immunologically Fitted Radiotherapy

D Morel, C Robert, N Paragios, V Grégoire… - Clinical Cancer …, 2024 - AACR
Ionizing radiation can have a wide range of impacts on tumor–immune interactions, which
are being studied with the greatest interest and at an accelerating pace by the medical …