Radiotherapy combined with immunotherapy: the dawn of cancer treatment

Z Zhang, X Liu, D Chen, J Yu - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
Radiotherapy (RT) is delivered for purposes of local control, but can also exert systemic
effect on remote and non-irradiated tumor deposits, which is called abscopal effect. The view …

Multidisciplinary standards of care and recent progress in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

AJ Grossberg, LC Chu, CR Deig… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite tremendous gains in the molecular understanding of exocrine pancreatic cancer,
the prognosis for this disease remains very poor, largely because of delayed disease …

Reshaping the systemic tumor immune environment (STIE) and tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) to enhance immunotherapy efficacy in solid tumors

L Xu, C Zou, S Zhang, TSM Chu, Y Zhang… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
The development of combination immunotherapy based on the mediation of regulatory
mechanisms of the tumor immune microenvironment (TIME) is promising. However, a deep …

ATR-mediated CD47 and PD-L1 up-regulation restricts radiotherapy-induced immune priming and abscopal responses in colorectal cancer

RCE Hsieh, S Krishnan, RC Wu, AR Boda, A Liu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Radiotherapy (RT) of colorectal cancer (CRC) can prime adaptive immunity against tumor-
associated antigen (TAA)–expressing CRC cells systemically. However, abscopal tumor …

Immunomodulation by radiotherapy in tumour control and normal tissue toxicity

UM Cytlak, DP Dyer, J Honeychurch… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Radiotherapy (RT) is a highly effective anticancer treatment that is delivered to more than
half of all patients with cancer. In addition to the well-documented direct cytotoxic effects, RT …

Radiotherapy toxicity

D De Ruysscher, G Niedermann, NG Burnet… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Radiotherapy is used in> 50% of patients with cancer, both for curative and palliative
purposes. Radiotherapy uses ionizing radiation to target and kill tumour tissue, but normal …

Tumor microenvironment as a “game changer” in cancer radiotherapy

M Jarosz-Biej, R Smolarczyk, T Cichoń… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Radiotherapy (RT), besides cancer cells, also affects the tumor microenvironment (TME):
tumor blood vessels and cells of the immune system. It damages endothelial cells and …

Radiotherapy treatment for lung cancer: Current status and future directions

SK Vinod, E Hau - Respirology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Radiotherapy is an important modality used for the treatment of lung cancer. Seventy‐seven
percent of all patients with lung cancer have an evidence‐based indication for radiotherapy …

A metal–phenolic nanocoordinator launches radiotherapeutic cancer pyroptosis through an epigenetic mechanism

G Wang, B Li, H Tian, L Xie, J Yan… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Radiotherapy, although clinically effective in immunoactivation, still cannot radio‐
functionalize tumor as a potent immunogenetic center. Given that newly found pyroptosis …

Nanomedicine embraces cancer radio-immunotherapy: mechanism, design, recent advances, and clinical translation

H Li, Q Luo, H Zhang, X Ma, Z Gu, Q Gong… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cancer radio-immunotherapy, integrating external/internal radiation therapy with immuno-
oncology treatments, emerges in the current management of cancer. A growing number of …