ArticleBiomedicines2023
Abscopal Effect on Bone Metastases from Solid Tumors: A Systematic Review and Retrospective Analysis of Challenge within a Challenge.
Article in Biomedicines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Combination of immune checkpoint inhibitors and radiotherapy for bone metastases induces an abscopal effect and improves outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer.Oncology letters · 2025Article
- Musculoskeletal abscopal effect: a review of the important imaging findings and their clinical relevance.Skeletal radiology · 2025Review
- The Tight Relationship Between the Tumoral Microenvironment and Radium-223.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Efficacy of innovative systemic treatments in combination with radiotherapy for bone metastases: a GEMO (the European Study Group of Bone Metastases) state of the art.Cancer metastasis reviews · 2025Review
- Molecular mechanisms underlying the abscopal effect induced by radiotherapy and its synergistic translational potential with immunotherapy.Therapeutic advances in medical oncology · 2025Review
- Radio-Guided Lung Surgery: A Feasible Approach for a Cancer Precision Medicine.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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Abstract
backgroundAbscopal effect (AE) describes the ability of radiotherapy (RT) to induce immune-mediated responses in nonirradiated distant metastasis. Bone represents the third most frequent site of metastasis and an immunologically favorable environment for the proliferation of cancer cells. We revised the literature, searching documented cases of AE involving bone metastases (BMs) and evaluated the incidence of AE involving BMs in patients requiring palliative RT on BMs or non-BMs treated at our department.
methodsArticles published in the PubMed/MEDLINE database were selected using the following search criteria: ((abscopal effect)) AND ((metastases)). Patients with BMs, who underwent performed bone scintigraphy before and at least 2-3 months after RT, were selected and screened between January 2015 and July 2022. AE was defined as an objective response according to the scan bone index for at least one nonirradiated metastasis at a distance > 10 cm from the irradiated lesion. The primary endpoint was the rate of AE on BMs.
resultsTen cases experiencing AE of BMs were identified from the literature and eight among our patients.
conclusionsThe analysis performed here suggests the use of hypofractionated radiotherapy as the only triggering factor for AE of BMs through the activation of the immune response.
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