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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2017

Optimizing Radiotherapy with Immunotherapeutic Approaches.

Jonathan E Schoenhals, Tijana Skrepnik, Ugur Selek, Maria A Cortez, Ailin Li, James W Welsh

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jonathan E SchoenhalsDepartment of Experimental Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Tijana SkrepnikDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Ugur SelekDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Maria A CortezDepartment of Experimental Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Ailin LiDepartment of Experimental Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
James W WelshDepartment of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Anderson Central (Y2.5316), 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 0097, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. jwelsh@mdanderson.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Several factors must be considered to successfully integrate immunotherapy with radiation into clinical practice. One such factor is that concepts arising from preclinical work must be tested in combination with radiation in preclinical models to better understand how combination therapy will work in patients; examples include checkpoint inhibitors, tumor growth factor-beta (TGF-β) inhibitors, and natural killer (NK) cell therapy. Also, many radiation fields and fractionation schedules typically used in radiation therapy had been standardized before the introduction of advanced techniques for radiation planning and delivery that account for changes in tumor size, location, and motion during treatment, as well as uncertainties introduced by variations in patient setup between treatment fractions. As a result, radiation therapy may involve the use of large treatment volumes, often encompassing nodal regions that may not be irradiated with more conformal techniques. Traditional forms of radiation in particular pose challenges for combination trials with immunotherapy. This chapter explores these issues in more detail and provides insights as to how radiation therapy can be optimized to combine with immunotherapy.

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Radiation DosageAnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsHumansImmunologic FactorsMolecular Targeted TherapyNeoplasmsRadioimmunotherapySignal TransductionTumor MicroenvironmentAntineoplastic AgentsImmunologic FactorsCD8+ T-cellClinical trialCTLA4ImmunotherapyPD1RadiationSABRSBRTTGF-β

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