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Combination radiation and immunotherapy in gynecologic malignancies—a comprehensive review

ABSTRACT: Definitive and adjuvant radiation and chemoradiation have been mainstays in the management of multiple gynecologic malignancies for decades. However, despite these treatments, the prognosis of patients with locally advanced, recurrent, refractory, and metastatic disease continues to be poor. Over the last decade, immune checkpoint inhibitors have emerged as a promising therapeutic modality, but response rates to monotherapy are low. Mounting basic science and translational research suggests that immunotherapy and radiation may act synergistically with the potential to improve clinical outcomes across multiple disease sites relative to monotherapy with either radiation or immunotherapy alone. Results from early clinical trials in other disease sites, and burgeoning trials within the gynecologic malignancies space hold promise for combined modality treatment. With increasing clinical data supporting combined modality therapy, there is interest in reevaluating treatment paradigms in gynecologic malignancies to improve the current standards of care. In this review, current proposed mechanisms, rationale, and evidence for treatment of gynecologic malignancies with combined radiation and immunotherapy, specifically immune checkpoint inhibitors, will be discussed. Additionally, although currently early and limited, existing clinical data will be summarized as it applies to cervical, endometrial, ovarian, and vulvar cancers. The status of current clinical trials investigating the sequencing, dosing, and fractionation of combined radiation and immunotherapy in these disease sites will also be reviewed.

SUBMITTER: Ladbury C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8797685 | biostudies-literature |

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