Roadmap: proton therapy physics and biology

H Paganetti, C Beltran, S Both, L Dong… - Physics in Medicine …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The treatment of cancer with proton radiation therapy was first suggested in 1946 followed
by the first treatments in the 1950s. As of 2020, almost 200 000 patients have been treated …

Immunomodulation of the tumor microenvironment: turn foe into friend

H Locy, S De Mey, W De Mey, M De Ridder… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Immunotherapy, where the patient's own immune system is exploited to eliminate tumor
cells, has become one of the most prominent new cancer treatment options in the last …

A review on lymphocyte radiosensitivity and its impact on radiotherapy

H Paganetti - Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
It is well known that radiation therapy causes lymphopenia in patients and that this is
correlated with a negative outcome. The mechanism is not well understood because …

Global democratisation of proton radiotherapy

S Yan, TA Ngoma, W Ngwa, TR Bortfeld - The Lancet Oncology, 2023 - thelancet.com
Proton radiotherapy is an advanced treatment option compared with conventional x-ray
treatment, delivering much lower doses of radiation to healthy tissues surrounding the …

Radioresistance of non-small cell lung cancers and therapeutic perspectives

M Césaire, J Montanari, H Curcio, D Lerouge… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The poor survival of unresectable locally advanced stage non-small cell
lung cancer is due to the resistance to chemoradiotherapy and local/distant relapses …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing radiotherapy with immune checkpoint blockade in hepatocellular carcinoma

C Choi, GS Yoo, WK Cho, HC Park - World journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer, and its incidence is
rapidly increasing in North America and Western Europe as well as South-East Asia …

Impact of proton therapy on antitumor immune response

C Mirjolet, A Nicol, E Limagne, C Mura, C Richard… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Radiotherapy delivered using photons induces an immune response that leads to
modulation of the tumor microenvironment. Clinical studies are ongoing to evaluate immune …

[HTML][HTML] Phase II trial of combined durvalumab plus tremelimumab with proton therapy for recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

H Kim, S Park, HA Jung, SH Lee… - … : Official Journal of …, 2023 - synapse.koreamed.org
Purpose This phase II study investigated whether durvalumab/tremelimumab with proton
therapy improves the objective response rate (ORR), overall survival (OS), and progression …

[HTML][HTML] Proton beam radiotherapy combined with anti-PD1/PDL1 immune checkpoint inhibitors for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma

CW Su, MM Hou, PW Huang, YC Chou… - American Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Anti-Programmed cell Death protein 1 (Anti-PD1) or Programmed Death-Ligand 1
(PDL1) immune checkpoint inhibitors provide treatment options for advanced HCC patients …

[HTML][HTML] Nanoparticle-enhanced proton beam immunoradiotherapy drives immune activation and durable tumor rejection

Y Hu, S Paris, N Sahoo, G Bertolet, Q Wang, Q Wang… - JCI insight, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The combination of radiation therapy (RT) and immunotherapy has emerged as a promising
treatment option in oncology. Historically, x-ray radiation (XRT) has been the most …