Immunotherapy mythbusters in head and neck cancer: The abscopal effect and pseudoprogression.
Atypical patterns of response to immunotherapy have been observed, including the abscopal effect and pseudoprogression. Although both are infrequent in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, the synergism between radiation and checkpoint blockade therapy
Dunn, L., Lauber, K.
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Advances in the Role of Chemokines in Microwave Ablation‐Based Combinatorial Immunotherapy
MWA can initiate antitumor immunity through tumor antigen release and innate immune activation, but iMWA may instead promote an immunosuppressive microenvironment. Combining MWA with immunotherapeutic strategies offers a promising approach to enhance systemic immunity and suppress residual and distant tumors.
Ruijie An, Ningning He, Wendong Gu
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Anti-PD-L1 antibody direct activation of macrophages contributes to a radiation-induced abscopal response in glioblastoma [PDF]
BACKGROUND Most glioblastoma recurrences occur near prior radiation treatment sites. Future clinical success will require achieving and optimizing an 'abscopal effect', whereby un-irradiated neoplastic cells outside treatment sites are recognized and ...
Durfy, Sharon J +18 more
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Messenger RNA constructs encoding nontumor antigens are proposed to sensitize cold tumors to checkpoint blockade. Observational survival estimates favor vaccination but are heterogeneous, and bias‐focused analyses find no significant difference once time‐zero is aligned. Epitope spreading remains undemonstrated in humans. This review separates what the
Sarfaraz K. Niazi
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The Need to Deepen the Abscopal Effect and Synergy among Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy
Emerging data that radiotherapy can potentially convert the patient’s own tumor into an in situ vaccine have raised significant interest for testing radiation in combination with immunotherapy.
Nerina Denaro, Denaro Nerina*
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Comparison of two close‐packing methods for vertex placement in lattice radiotherapy (LRT)
Abstract Background Lattice Radiation Therapy (LRT) is characterized by its 3D‐mouldated spatial dose distribution of vertices inside the lattice volume with high peak‐to‐valley dose ratio (PVDR) for enhancing tumor control and reducing normal tissue toxicity.
Yingjie Song, Pan Ma, Jianrong Dai
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Abscopal Effect of Radiotherapy in the Immunotherapy Era: Systematic Review of Reported Cases
Mounting evidence suggests that radiation stimulates the immune system and this contributes to the abscopal effect, which is defined as "response at a distance from the irradiated volume." Though identified more than 50 years ago, the abscopal effect is ...
Karaman, Sule +3 more
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Use of synchrotron medical microbeam irradiation to investigate radiation-induced bystander and abscopal effects in vivo [PDF]
The question of whether bystander and abscopal effects are the same is unclear. Our experimental system enables us to address this question by allowing irradiated organisms to partner with unexposed individuals.
Bräuer-Krisch, Elke +15 more
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Immunization by Radiotherapy: Enhancing an Immune-mediated Abscopal Effect [PDF]
Radiotherapy aims to destroy tumors by inducing DNA damage in their cells at the local irradiation site. Its immune-mediated systemic effects, called abscopal effect, has shown to enhance anti-tumor immunity when combined with immune therapies and thus ...
Steffen, Amy
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Background The synergistic suppressive effects of the radioimmunotherapy-induced abscopal effect on distant non-irradiated tumors have recently emerged as a research hotspot.
Hui Wang +5 more
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