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SUBMITTER: Patel SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5420531 | biostudies-other | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Patel Suchit H SH Rimner Andreas A Cohen Roger B RB
Translational lung cancer research 20170401 2
Recent work with immunotherapy has shown promising results with treatment of several solid malignancies, and there are several reports of good systemic responses with the combination of immunotherapy and radiation therapy (RT), most notably in advanced melanoma. Given the rapid increase in the use of checkpoint blockade as well as anti-tumor vaccines, we review here the preclinical rationale and ongoing clinical work in combining immunotherapy with RT for small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and thymic ...[more]