ReviewCurrent oncology (Toronto, Ont.)2025
LAG3, TIM3 and TIGIT: New Targets for Immunotherapy and Potential Associations with Radiotherapy.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 and LAG-3 immune checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment of patients with solid tumor.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Pooled it
- TIGIT Expression and Its Implications in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Progression and Therapy: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Tumor Plasticity and Microenvironmental Crosstalk as Drivers of Metastasis and Therapy Resistance.MedComm · 2026Review
- Timing matters: how mechanism-guided sequencing shapes the efficacy of radiotherapy-immunotherapy combinations : A systematic review.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2026Review
- Breast cancer immunotherapy: mechanisms of immune evasion, biomarkers, and emerging therapeutic strategies.Molecular cancer · 2026Review
- Uncovering the Intricate and Heterogeneous Cellular Microenvironment of Cutaneous Melanoma.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Colorectal cancer liver metastasis: immunosuppressive microenvironment, signaling pathways, and emerging therapeutic strategies.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- Immune checkpoint inhibitor-induced cardiotoxicity: from immune mechanisms to clinical surveillance and targeted therapies.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Aptamers targeting immune checkpoints for tumor immunotherapy: a comprehensive review.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
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- Aptamers Targeting Immune Checkpoints for Tumor Immunotherapy.Pharmaceutics · 2025Review
- Immune microenvironment heterogeneity characterizes biologically distinct KRASFrontiers in immunology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The combination of immunotherapy and radiotherapy has demonstrated synergistic potential, especially when a combination of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) is administered. Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte-Associated Protein-4 (CTLA-4) inhibitors and Programmed Death-Ligand 1 (PD-L1) inhibitors or Programmed Cell Death Protein 1 (PD-1) inhibitors have been assessed in both clinical and preclinical studies; the addition of radiotherapy activates immunomodulatory mechanisms materialized by an effect similar to "in situ" vaccination or the "abscopal" distant response of lesions outside the irradiation field. The new therapeutic targets (T cell immune-receptor with Ig and ITIM domains (TIGIT), Lymphocyte activating gene 3 (LAG-3), and T cell Ig- and mucin-domain-containing molecule-3 (TIM-3)) associated with traditional ICIs and radiotherapy open new perspectives to the concept of immuno-radiotherapy. The dynamic evaluation of T lymphocyte expression involved in the antitumor immune response, both in the tumor microenvironment (TME) and in the tumor itself, could have biomarker value in assessing the response to combination therapy with traditional and new ICIs in association with irradiation. Preclinical data justify the initiation of clinical trials in various tumor pathologies to explore this concept.
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