Using immunotherapy to boost the abscopal effect

W Ngwa, OC Irabor, JD Schoenfeld, J Hesser… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
More than 60 years ago, the effect whereby radiotherapy at one site may lead to regression
of metastatic cancer at distant sites that are not irradiated was described and called the …

Tailoring biomaterials for cancer immunotherapy: emerging trends and future outlook

C Wang, Y Ye, Q Hu, A Bellotti, Z Gu - Advanced materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer immunotherapy, as a paradigm shift in cancer treatment, has recently received
tremendous attention. The active cancer vaccination, immune checkpoint blockage (ICB) …

Zinc cyclic di-AMP nanoparticles target and suppress tumours via endothelial STING activation and tumour-associated macrophage reinvigoration

K Yang, W Han, X Jiang, A Piffko, J Bugno… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The clinical utility of stimulator of interferon genes (STING) agonists has been limited due to
poor tumour-targeting and unwanted toxicity following systemic delivery. Here we describe a …

PD-L1 on dendritic cells attenuates T cell activation and regulates response to immune checkpoint blockade

Q Peng, X Qiu, Z Zhang, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade therapies have shown clinical promise in a variety of cancers,
but how tumor-infiltrating T cells are activated remains unclear. In this study, we explore the …

Tumor-reprogrammed resident T cells resist radiation to control tumors

A Arina, M Beckett, C Fernandez, W Zheng… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Successful combinations of radiotherapy and immunotherapy depend on the presence of
live T cells within the tumor; however, radiotherapy is believed to damage T cells. Here …

Elective nodal irradiation attenuates the combinatorial efficacy of stereotactic radiation therapy and immunotherapy

AE Marciscano, A Ghasemzadeh, TR Nirschl… - Clinical Cancer …, 2018 - AACR
Purpose: In the proper context, radiotherapy can promote antitumor immunity. It is unknown
if elective nodal irradiation (ENI), a strategy that irradiates tumor-associated draining lymph …

Approaches to treat immune hot, altered and cold tumours with combination immunotherapies

J Galon, D Bruni - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Immunotherapies are the most rapidly growing drug class and have a major impact in
oncology and on human health. It is increasingly clear that the effectiveness of …

Radiation effects on antitumor immune responses: current perspectives and challenges

T Walle, R Martinez Monge… - … in medical oncology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Radiotherapy (RT) is currently used in more than 50% of cancer patients during the course
of their disease in the curative, adjuvant or palliative setting. RT achieves good local control …

Radiotherapy and immunotherapy for cancer: from “systemic” to “multisite”

A Arina, SI Gutiontov, RR Weichselbaum - Clinical Cancer Research, 2020 - AACR
In the era of cancer immunotherapy, there is significant interest in combining conventional
cancer therapies, such as radiotherapy, with drugs that stimulate the immune system. The …

Immune evasion in pancreatic cancer: from mechanisms to therapy

N Martinez-Bosch, J Vinaixa, P Navarro - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), the most frequent type of pancreatic cancer,
remains one of the most challenging problems for the biomedical and clinical fields, with …