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 …

[HTML][HTML] State of the art in combination immuno/radiotherapy for brain metastases: systematic review and meta-analysis

M Najafi, A Jahanbakhshi, M Gomar, C Iotti… - Current …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Objectives: Common origins for brain metastases (BMs) are melanoma, lung, breast, and
renal cell cancers. BMs account for a large share of morbidity and mortality caused by these …

[HTML][HTML] Radiation therapy and PD-1/PD-L1 blockade: the clinical development of an evolving anticancer combination

J Gong, TQ Le, E Massarelli, AE Hendifar… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2018 - Springer
Several inhibitors of programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and programmed death ligand-1 (PD-
L1) have been approved as a form of immunotherapy for multiple cancers. Ionizing radiation …

The impact of radiation therapy on lymphocyte count and survival in metastatic cancer patients receiving PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitors

LRG Pike, A Bang, BA Mahal, A Taylor… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose Therapeutic radiation has conflicting immune effects: radiation therapy (RT)-
induced immunogenic cell death can contribute to immune response, but lymphocytes are …

[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] Combining radiotherapy with anti-angiogenic therapy and immunotherapy; a therapeutic triad for cancer?

RSA Goedegebuure, LK De Klerk, AJ Bass… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Radiotherapy has been used for the treatment of cancer for over a century. Throughout this
period, the therapeutic benefit of radiotherapy has continuously progressed due to technical …

[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 …

Local tumor response and survival outcomes after combined stereotactic radiosurgery and immunotherapy in non–small cell lung cancer with brain metastases

C Singh, JM Qian, BY James, VL Chiang - Journal of Neurosurgery, 2019 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Concurrent use of anti-PD-1 therapies with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS)
have been shown to be beneficial for survival and local lesional control in melanoma …

[HTML][HTML] Pulmonary complications of immune checkpoint inhibitors in patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer

J Cadranel, A Canellas, L Matton… - European …, 2019 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Immune checkpoint inhibitor-related pneumonitis (ICI-P) during cancer treatment is rarely
observed (< 5%). ICI-P is more often observed in patients with nonsmall cell lung cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Radiation and PD-(L) 1 treatment combinations: immune response and dose optimization via a predictive systems model

Y Kosinsky, SJ Dovedi, K Peskov, V Voronova… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2018 - Springer
Background Numerous oncology combination therapies involving modulators of the cancer
immune cycle are being developed, yet quantitative simulation models predictive of outcome …