[HTML][HTML] Taking phototherapeutics from concept to clinical launch

BM Vickerman, EM Zywot, TK Tarrant… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
More than four decades have passed since the first example of a light-activated (caged)
compound was described. In the intervening years, a large number of light-responsive …

[HTML][HTML] Nanotechnology-enhanced immunotherapy for metastatic cancer

P Zhang, J Meng, Y Li, C Yang, Y Hou, W Tang… - The Innovation, 2021 - cell.com
A vast majority of cancer deaths occur as a result of metastasis. Unfortunately, effective
treatments for metastases are currently lacking due to the difficulty of selectively targeting …

Nuclear sensing of breaks in mitochondrial DNA enhances immune surveillance

M Tigano, DC Vargas, S Tremblay-Belzile, Y Fu, A Sfeir - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Mitochondrial DNA double-strand breaks (mtDSBs) are toxic lesions that compromise the
integrity of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and alter mitochondrial function. Communication …

Sequence of αPD-1 relative to local tumor irradiation determines the induction of abscopal antitumor immune responses

J Wei, W Montalvo-Ortiz, L Yu, A Krasco, S Ebstein… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Although radiotherapy has been used for over a century to locally control tumor growth,
alone it rarely induces an abscopal response or systemic antitumor immunity capable of …

Radiation-induced neoantigens broaden the immunotherapeutic window of cancers with low mutational loads

DM Lussier, E Alspach, JP Ward… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Immunotherapies are a promising advance in cancer treatment. However, because only a
subset of cancer patients benefits from these treatments it is important to find mechanisms …

[HTML][HTML] Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) clinical practice guideline on immunotherapy for the treatment of breast cancer

LA Emens, S Adams, A Cimino-Mathews… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Breast cancer has historically been a disease for which immunotherapy was largely
unavailable. Recently, the use of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in combination with …

The abscopal effect of radiation therapy

DJ Craig, NS Nanavaty, M Devanaboyina… - Future …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Radiation therapy (RT) in some cases results in a systemic anticancer response known as
the abscopal effect. Multiple hypotheses support the role of immune activation initiated by …

High-dose irradiation in combination with non-ablative low-dose radiation to treat metastatic disease after progression on immunotherapy: Results of a phase II trial

RR Patel, K He, HB Barsoumian, JY Chang… - Radiotherapy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Aim To report early findings from a phase II trial of high-dose radiotherapy (HD-RT) with or
without low-dose RT (LD-RT) for metastatic cancer. Methods Eligible patients had metastatic …

Safety and efficacy of PD‐1/PD‐L1 inhibitors combined with radiotherapy in patients with non‐small‐cell lung cancer: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Y Geng, Q Zhang, S Feng, C Li, L Wang… - Cancer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background A combination of programmed cell death protein‐1 (PD‐1)/programmed cell
death ligand‐1 (PD‐L1) inhibitors and radiotherapy (RT) is increasingly being used to treat …

[HTML][HTML] Radiotherapy and immunotherapy for head and neck cancer: current evidence and challenges

JM Qian, JD Schoenfeld - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have revolutionized cancer treatment over the past
decade. However, although the immune landscape suggests a strong rationale for the use of …