There have been a growing number of studies combining radiotherapy with immunotherapy to enhance both local and metastatic tumor cell kill leveraging the immune-mediated abscopal effect. This abscopal effect can enable the killing of metastatic cells, distant from the...
As the population ages, more elderly patients require radiotherapy-based treatment for their pelvic malignancies, including muscle-invasive bladder cancer, as they are unfit for major surgery. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find radiosensitizing agents...
Low dose radiotherapy is being increasingly used to treat benign syndromes, however long term impact studies on these low dose radiotherapy treatments has long been neglected. In their paper “The Erlangen Dose Optimization trial for low-dose radiotherapy of...
As the population ages, more elderly patients require radiotherapy-based treatment for their pelvic malignancies, including muscle-invasive bladder cancer, as they are unfit for major surgery. Therefore, there is an urgent need to find radiosensitizing agents...
According to the American Academy of Dermatology, it is estimated that non-melanoma skin cancer, including basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma, affects more than 3 million Americans a year and 178,560 new cases of melanoma, including 91,270 invasive, will...
Combined immune checkpoint blockade has led to rare autoimmune complications, such as fatal myocarditis. Recent approvals of several anti-programmed death 1 (anti-PD-1) drugs for lung cancer treatment prompted ongoing clinical trials that directly combine PD-1...
In many European countries, patients with a variety of chronical inflammatory diseases are treated with low-dose radiotherapy (LD-RT). In contrast to high-dose irradiation given to tumor patients, little is known about radiobiological mechanisms underlying this...
Cancer treatment has come a long way in a short time, however as new drugs and treatments are developed, the therapeutic index of treatments needs to be assessed. In their study “Inhibition of ataxia telangiectasia related-3 (ATR) improves therapeutic index in...
Radiotherapy enhances innate and adaptive antitumor immunity; however, the effects of radiation on suppressive immune cells, such as regulatory T cells (Treg), in the tumor microenvironment (TME) are not fully elucidated. Although previous reports suggest an increased...