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SUBMITTER: Buchwald ZS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6218185 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bladder cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 20150430 1
Recently, immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors has been showing promise in clinical trials for stage IV bladder cancer. Herein, we review the literature regarding the role for radiation therapy, the role for immunotherapy, and the potential synergy of these treatments combined in bladder cancer. There is ample pre-clinical data in a number of different tumor models, coupled with a growing body of clinical evidence in melanoma and other malignancies to suggest combining radiation and immunoth ...[more]