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SUBMITTER: Brooks ED
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5812885 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul-Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brooks Eric D ED Schoenhals Jonathan E JE Tang Chad C Micevic Goran G Gomez Daniel R DR Chang Joe Y JY Welsh James W JW
Cancer journal (Sudbury, Mass.) 20160701 4
Immunotherapy, particularly immune-checkpoint inhibition, is producing encouraging clinical responses and affecting the way numerous cancers are treated. Yet immune-checkpoint therapy is not effective for many patients, and even those who initially respond can experience relapse, fueling interest in finding new processes or tools to improve the effectiveness of these novel therapeutics. One such tool is radiation. Both preclinical and clinical studies have demonstrated that the systemic effects ...[more]