Radiation therapy‐associated toxicity: Etiology, management, and prevention

K Wang, JE Tepper - CA: a cancer journal for clinicians, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Radiation therapy (RT) is a curative treatment for many malignancies and provides effective
palliation in patients with tumor‐related symptoms. However, the biophysical effects of RT …

Brain metastases: A Society for Neuro-Oncology (SNO) consensus review on current management and future directions

AA Aizer, N Lamba, MS Ahluwalia, K Aldape… - Neuro …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Brain metastases occur commonly in patients with advanced solid malignancies. Yet, less is
known about brain metastases than cancer-related entities of similar incidence. Advances in …

Molecular profiling reveals unique immune and metabolic features of melanoma brain metastases

GM Fischer, A Jalali, DA Kircher, WC Lee, JL McQuade… - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
There is a critical need to improve our understanding of the pathogenesis of melanoma
brain metastases (MBM). Thus, we performed RNA sequencing on 88 resected MBMs and …

Safety of combining radiotherapy with immune-checkpoint inhibition

WL Hwang, LRG Pike, TJ Royce, BA Mahal… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2018 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint inhibitors targeting cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4),
programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), or programmed cell death 1 ligand 1 (PD-L1) have …

State of the art in combination immuno/radiotherapy for brain metastases: systematic review and meta-analysis

M Najafi, A Jahanbakhshi, M Gomar, C Iotti… - Current …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Objectives: Common origins for brain metastases (BMs) are melanoma, lung, breast, and
renal cell cancers. BMs account for a large share of morbidity and mortality caused by these …

Radiation therapy and PD-1/PD-L1 blockade: the clinical development of an evolving anticancer combination

J Gong, TQ Le, E Massarelli, AE Hendifar… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2018 - Springer
Several inhibitors of programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and programmed death ligand-1 (PD-
L1) have been approved as a form of immunotherapy for multiple cancers. Ionizing radiation …

Imaging challenges of immunotherapy and targeted therapy in patients with brain metastases: response, progression, and pseudoprogression

N Galldiks, M Kocher, G Ceccon, JM Werner… - Neuro …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The advent of immunotherapy using immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) and targeted
therapy (TT) has dramatically improved the prognosis of various cancer types. However …

A review on curability of cancers: more efforts for novel therapeutic options are needed

S Wang, Y Liu, Y Feng, J Zhang, J Swinnen, Y Li, Y Ni - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cancer remains a major cause of death globally. Given its relapsing and fatal features,
curing cancer seems to be something hardly possible for the majority of patients. In view of …

Radiation-induced immunity and toxicities: the versatility of the cGAS-STING pathway

J Constanzo, J Faget, C Ursino, C Badie… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the past decade, radiation therapy (RT) entered the era of personalized medicine,
following the striking improvements in radiation delivery and treatment planning …

[HTML][HTML] Whole Brain Irradiation or Stereotactic RadioSurgery for five or more brain metastases (WHOBI-STER): A prospective comparative study of neurocognitive …

G Ferini, A Viola, V Valenti, A Tripoli, L Molino… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Aims To evaluate neurocognitive performance, daily activity and quality of life (QoL), other
than usual oncologic outcomes, among patients with brain metastasis≥ 5 (MBM) from solid …