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 …

Immunological mechanisms responsible for radiation-induced abscopal effect

ME Rodríguez-Ruiz, C Vanpouille-Box, I Melero… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
Radiotherapy has been used for more than a hundred years as a local tumor treatment. The
occurrence of systemic antitumor effects manifesting as regression of tumors outside of the …

Efficacy, safety, and biomarkers of response to azacitidine and nivolumab in relapsed/refractory acute myeloid leukemia: a nonrandomized, open-label, phase II study

N Daver, G Garcia-Manero, S Basu, PC Boddu… - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
Preclinical models have shown that blocking PD-1/PD-L1 pathways enhances antileukemic
responses. Azacitidine upregulates PD-1 and IFNγ signaling. We therefore conducted this …

Metastases-directed stereotactic body radiotherapy in combination with targeted therapy or immunotherapy: systematic review and consensus recommendations by …

SGC Kroeze, M Pavic, K Stellamans, Y Lievens… - The lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for patients with metastatic cancer, especially when
characterised by a low tumour burden (ie, oligometastatic disease), receiving targeted …

Current landscape of immunotherapy in breast cancer: a review

S Adams, ME Gatti-Mays, K Kalinsky, LA Korde… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance There is tremendous interest in using immunotherapy to treat breast cancer, as
evidenced by the more than 290 clinical trials ongoing at the time of this narrative review …

[HTML][HTML] Low-dose radiation treatment enhances systemic antitumor immune responses by overcoming the inhibitory stroma

HB Barsoumian, R Ramapriyan, AI Younes… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Despite some successes with checkpoint inhibitors for treating cancer, most
patients remain refractory to treatment, possibly due to the inhibitory nature of the tumor …

Time to abandon single-site irradiation for inducing abscopal effects

ED Brooks, JY Chang - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2019 - nature.com
Considerable interest is being directed toward combining immune-checkpoint inhibition (ICI)
with radiotherapy to improve response rates to ICI, which have been disappointingly low at …

Association of radiation therapy with risk of adverse events in patients receiving immunotherapy: a pooled analysis of trials in the US food and drug administration …

MS Anscher, S Arora, C Weinstock, A Amatya… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and radiation therapy (RT) are widely used
to treat various cancers, but little data are available to guide clinicians on ICI use …

The distribution of T‐cell subsets and the expression of immune checkpoint receptors and ligands in patients with newly diagnosed and relapsed acute myeloid …

P Williams, S Basu, G Garcia‐Manero, CS Hourigan… - Cancer, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Phenotypic characterization of immune cells in the bone marrow (BM) of
patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is lacking. Methods T‐cell infiltration was …

Emerging targets in cancer immunotherapy

S Burugu, AR Dancsok, TO Nielsen - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
The first generation of immune checkpoint inhibitors (anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1/PD-L1)
targeted natural immune homeostasis pathways, co-opted by cancers, to drive anti-tumor …