Targets for improving tumor response to radiotherapy

K Mortezaee, W Parwaie, E Motevaseli… - International …, 2019 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy is one of the most common treatment modalities for controlling a wide range of
tumors. However, it has been shown that radiotherapy alone is unable to completely …

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 …

Immune system in cancer radiotherapy: Resistance mechanisms and therapy perspectives

K Mortezaee, M Najafi - Critical reviews in oncology/hematology, 2021 - Elsevier
Radiotherapy is a common modality for more than half of cancer patients. Classically,
radiation is known as a strategy to kill cancer cells via direct interaction with DNA or …

Radiation-induced tumor immune microenvironments and potential targets for combination therapy

S Guo, Y Yao, Y Tang, Z Xin, D Wu, C Ni… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
As one of the four major means of cancer treatment including surgery, radiotherapy (RT),
chemotherapy, immunotherapy, RT can be applied to various cancers as both a radical …

[PDF][PDF] Combining targeted radionuclide therapy and immune checkpoint inhibition for cancer treatment

SC Kleinendorst, E Oosterwijk, J Bussink… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
The development of immunotherapy, in particular immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI), has
revolutionized cancer treatment in the past decades. However, its efficacy is still limited to …

Overcoming resistance to combination radiation-immunotherapy: a focus on contributing pathways within the tumor microenvironment

LB Darragh, AJ Oweida, SD Karam - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Radiation therapy has been used for many years to treat tumors based on its DNA-damage-
mediated ability to kill cells. More recently, RT has been shown to exert beneficial …

Enhance the immune checkpoint inhibitors efficacy with radiotherapy induced immunogenic cell death: A comprehensive review and latest developments

A Procureur, A Simonaggio, JE Bibault, S Oudard… - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Efficient antitumoral immune response is conditioned by a regulated cell
death called immunogenic cell death. Many immunologic cell death inducers are currently …

Immune-modulating properties of ionizing radiation: rationale for the treatment of cancer by combination radiotherapy and immune checkpoint inhibitors

A Derer, B Frey, R Fietkau, US Gaipl - Cancer Immunology …, 2016 - Springer
Radiotherapy (RT) utilizes the DNA-damaging properties of ionizing radiation to control
tumor growth and ultimately kill tumor cells. By modifying the tumor cell phenotype and the …

Safety of combining radiotherapy with immune-checkpoint inhibition

WL Hwang, LRG Pike, TJ Royce, BA Mahal… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint inhibitors targeting cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4),
programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), or programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1) have …

Radiotherapy combined with immune checkpoint blockade immunotherapy: achievements and challenges

F Teng, L Kong, X Meng, J Yang, J Yu - Cancer letters, 2015 - Elsevier
To date, several kinds of immunomodulating monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have been
applied in clinical trials, such as anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (anti-CTLA-4) mAb …