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ReviewBladder cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2015

Immunotherapy and Radiation - A New Combined Treatment Approach for Bladder Cancer?

Zachary S Buchwald, Jason A Efstathiou

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Review in Bladder cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Exosomes in Cancer Radioresistance.Frontiers in oncology · 2019
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  9. Neoadjuvant therapy of locally/regionally advanced melanoma.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zachary S BuchwaldSaint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA.
Jason A EfstathiouDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 immunotherapy could lead to substantial advances in treatment outcomes for bladder cancer. Yet, these data for bladder cancer remain at the pre-clinical stage, and further study is needed.

Indexed as

BCGbladder cancerbladder-sparing therapycheckpoint inhibitorImmunotherapyradiation therapy

Identifiers

PMID30561443
PMCPMC6218185

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