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 …

Recent advances in nanomaterial-based synergistic combination cancer immunotherapy

W Sang, Z Zhang, Y Dai, X Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, conventional treatments including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy
have been the main approaches in tumour therapy. Cancer immunotherapy is a new …

Local biomaterials-assisted cancer immunotherapy to trigger systemic antitumor responses

Q Chen, M Chen, Z Liu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Cancer immunotherapy by educating or stimulating patients' own immune systems to attack
cancer cells has demonstrated promising therapeutic responses in the clinic. However …

[HTML][HTML] Immunotherapy of colorectal cancer: Challenges for therapeutic efficacy

D Ciardiello, PP Vitiello, C Cardone, G Martini… - Cancer treatment …, 2019 - Elsevier
A better knowledge of the complex interactions between cancer cells and the immune
system has led to novel immunotherapy approaches. Treatment with selective anti-PD1, anti …

The pro-tumorigenic host response to cancer therapies

Y Shaked - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Resistance to cancer therapy remains a major challenge in clinical oncology. Although the
initial treatment phase is often successful, eventual resistance, characterized by tumour …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering patient-specific cancer immunotherapies

L Scheetz, KS Park, Q Li, PR Lowenstein… - Nature biomedical …, 2019 - nature.com
Research into the immunological processes implicated in cancer has yielded a basis for the
range of immunotherapies that are now considered the fourth pillar of cancer treatment …

[HTML][HTML] Sites of metastasis and association with clinical outcome in advanced stage cancer patients treated with immunotherapy

MA Bilen, JM Shabto, DJ Martini, Y Liu, C Lewis… - BMC cancer, 2019 - Springer
Background Selecting the appropriate patients to receive immunotherapy (IO) remains a
challenge due to the lack of optimal biomarkers. The presence of liver metastases has been …

[HTML][HTML] Current status of immune checkpoint inhibition in early-stage NSCLC

J Vansteenkiste, E Wauters, B Reymen… - Annals of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) immunotherapy has revolutionized the approach to
metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In particular, antibodies blocking the …

[HTML][HTML] Immune targets in the tumor microenvironment treated by radiotherapy

OM Ozpiskin, L Zhang, JJ Li - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Radiotherapy (RT), the major anti-cancer modality for more than half of cancer patients after
diagnosis, has the advantage of local tumor control with relatively less systematic side …

[HTML][HTML] Integrin αvβ3-targeted radionuclide therapy combined with immune checkpoint blockade immunotherapy synergistically enhances anti-tumor efficacy

H Chen, L Zhao, K Fu, Q Lin, X Wen, O Jacobson… - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Radiotherapy combined with immunotherapy has revealed promising outcomes
in both preclinical studies and ongoing clinical trials. Targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) is …