Use of multi-site radiation therapy for systemic disease control

RR Patel, V Verma, HB Barsoumian, MS Ning… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Metastatic cancer is a heterogeneous entity, some of which could benefit from local
consolidative radiation therapy (RT). Although randomized evidence is growing in support of …

The 46th David A. Karnofsky Memorial Award lecture: oligometastasis—from conception to treatment

RR Weichselbaum - Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2018 - ascopubs.org
Metastasis from most adult solid tumors generally has been considered to be widespread
and incurable. Here, I present clinical and molecular data to support the hypothesis that …

Definitive local consolidative therapy for oligometastatic solid tumors: results from the lead-in phase of the randomized basket trial EXTEND

AD Sherry, TK Bathala, S Liu, BM Fellman… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose The benefit of local consolidative therapy (LCT) for oligometastasis across
histologies remains uncertain. EXTernal beam radiation to Eliminate Nominal metastatic …

Radiation therapy and immunotherapy: what is the optimal timing or sequencing?

ML Aliru, JE Schoenhals, BP Venkatesulu… - …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Radiotherapy is a component of the standard of care for many patients with locally advanced
nonmetastatic tumors and increasingly those with oligometastatic tumors. Despite …

Emerging evidence for adapting radiotherapy to immunotherapy

L Galluzzi, MJ Aryankalayil, CN Coleman… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2023 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized the clinical management of many malignancies but is
infrequently associated with durable objective responses when used as a standalone …

Pulsed radiation therapy to improve systemic control of metastatic cancer

K He, HB Barsoumian, D Sezen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Radiation therapy (RT) is emerging as an interventional modality in the cancer-immunity
cycle, augmenting the activation of an adaptive immune response against tumors. RT …

Metastatic disease as a distinct discipline in radiation oncology

CJ Tsai, DR Gomez, TJ Yang - JAMA oncology, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
The treatment paradigm for patients with metastatic cancer has shifted in the era of
oligometastatic disease, 1 novelsystemictherapy, andlocalablativetherapyoptions such as …

The confluence of radiotherapy and immunotherapy

B Burnette, YX Fu, RR Weichselbaum - Frontiers in oncology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Radiotherapy (RT) has been considered a local modality and outcomes have emphasized
local and regional control of tumors. Recent data suggests that RT may activate the immune …

Radiotherapy remodels the tumor microenvironment for enhancing immunotherapeutic sensitivity

S Liu, W Wang, S Hu, B Jia, B Tuo, H Sun… - Cell Death & …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer immunotherapy has transformed traditional treatments, with immune checkpoint
blockade being particularly prominent. However, immunotherapy has minimal benefit for …

Radiation in the treatment of oligometastatic and oligoprogressive disease: Rationale, recent data, and research questions

S Zayed, RJM Correa, DA Palma - The Cancer Journal, 2020 - journals.lww.com
The use of local ablative therapy or metastasis-directed therapy is an emerging
management paradigm in oligometastatic and oligoprogressive cancer. Recent randomized …