Rationale of combination of anti-PD-1/PD-L1 antibody therapy and radiotherapy for cancer treatment

H Sato, N Okonogi, T Nakano - International Journal of clinical oncology, 2020 - Springer
Significant technological advances in radiotherapy have been made in the past few
decades. High-precision radiotherapy has recently become popular and is contributing to …

Reinvigorating exhausted CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes in the tumor microenvironment and current strategies in cancer immunotherapy

MA Hossain, G Liu, B Dai, Y Si, Q Yang… - Medicinal Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of cancer in recent years and achieved
overall success and long‐term clinical benefit in patients with a wide variety of cancer types …

Molecular classification of the PORTEC-3 trial for high-risk endometrial cancer: impact on prognosis and benefit from adjuvant therapy

A León-Castillo, SM De Boer, ME Powell… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE The randomized Adjuvant Chemoradiotherapy Versus Radiotherapy Alone in
Women With High-Risk Endometrial Cancer (PORTEC-3) trial investigated the benefit of …

[HTML][HTML] Preoperative pembrolizumab combined with chemoradiotherapy for oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma (PALACE-1)

C Li, S Zhao, Y Zheng, Y Han, X Chen, Z Cheng… - European journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background To investigate the safety and activity of preoperative pembrolizumab combined
with chemoradiotherapy for resectable oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma …

[HTML][HTML] Simultaneous targeting of TGF-β/PD-L1 synergizes with radiotherapy by reprogramming the tumor microenvironment to overcome immune evasion

Y Lan, M Moustafa, M Knoll, C Xu, J Furkel… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Localized radiotherapy (RT) induces an immunogenic antitumor response that is in part
counterbalanced by activation of immune evasive and tissue remodeling processes, eg, via …

[HTML][HTML] Phase II, single-arm trial of preoperative short-course radiotherapy followed by chemotherapy and camrelizumab in locally advanced rectal cancer

Z Lin, M Cai, P Zhang, G Li, T Liu, X Li… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background In locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC), preoperative short-course
radiotherapy (SCRT) with delayed surgery has been shown to be as effective as long-course …

PD-L1 immunohistochemistry for canine cancers and clinical benefit of anti-PD-L1 antibody in dogs with pulmonary metastatic oral malignant melanoma

N Maekawa, S Konnai, M Nishimura, Y Kagawa… - NPJ precision …, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy targeting programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) and PD-ligand 1 (PD-L1)
represents promising treatments for human cancers. Our previous studies demonstrated PD …

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 …

Personalized ultrafractionated stereotactic adaptive radiotherapy (PULSAR) in preclinical models enhances single-agent immune checkpoint blockade

C Moore, CC Hsu, WM Chen, BPC Chen, C Han… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Purpose Harnessing the immune-stimulatory effects of radiation by combining it with
immunotherapy is a promising new treatment strategy. However, more studies …

Anti-TIGIT antibody improves PD-L1 blockade through myeloid and Treg cells

X Guan, R Hu, Y Choi, S Srivats, BY Nabet, J Silva… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Tiragolumab, an anti-TIGIT antibody with an active IgG1κ Fc, demonstrated improved
outcomes in the phase 2 CITYSCAPE trial (ClinicalTrials. gov: NCT03563716) when …