Radiotherapy combined with immunotherapy:the dawn of cancer treatment

作     者：Zengfu Zhang Xu Liu Dawei Chen Jinming Yu 

作者机构：Department of Radiation OncologyShandong University Cancer CenterYantai RoadNo.2999JinanShandongChina Department of Radiation OncologyShandong Cancer Hospital and InstituteShandong First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical SciencesJiyan RoadNo.440JinanShandongChina 

出 版 物：《Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy》 (信号转导与靶向治疗（英文）)

年 卷 期：2022年第7卷第8期

页      面：2974-3007页

核心收录：

学科分类：0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 0710[理学-生物学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 08[工学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

基　　金：Dawei Chen has received grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China(82172676) the Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST(YESS20210137) Science Foundation of Shandong(ZR2021YQ52,ZR2020LZL016) Foundation of Bethune Charitable Foundation(2021434953) Jinming Yu has received grants from the foundation of National Natural Science Foundation of China(81627901,81972863,and 82030082)。 

主　　题：immunotherapy treatment rational 

摘      要：Radiotherapy(RT)is delivered for purposes of local control,but can also exert systemic effect on remote and non-irradiated tumor deposits,which is called abscopal effect.The view of RT as a simple local treatment has dramatically changed in recent years,and it is now widely accepted that RT can provoke a systemic immune response which gives a strong rationale for the combination of RT and immunotherapy(iRT).Nevertheless,several points remain to be addressed such as the interaction of RT and immune system,the identification of the best schedules for combination with immunotherapy(IO),the expansion of abscopal effect and the mechanism to amplify iRT.To answer these crucial questions,we roundly summarize underlying rationale showing the whole immune landscape in RT and clinical trials to attempt to identify the best schedules of iRT.In consideration of the rarity of abscopal effect,we propose that the occurrence of abscopal effect induced by radiation can be promoted to 100%in view of molecular and genetic level.Furthermore,the“radscopal effectwhich refers to using low-dose radiation to reprogram the tumor microenvironment may amplify the occurrence of abscopal effect and overcome the resistance of iRT.Taken together,RT could be regarded as a trigger of systemic antitumor immune response,and with the help of IO can be used as a radical and systemic treatment and be added into current standard regimen of patients with metastatic cancer.