Possible Abscopal Effect Observed in Frontal Meningioma After Localized IMRT on Posterior Meningioma Resection Cavity Without Adjuvant Immunotherapy

Possible Abscopal Effect Observed in Frontal Meningioma After Localized IMRT on Posterior Meningioma Resection Cavity Without Adjuvant Immunotherapy

Background: Localized radiation therapy (RT) is known to infrequently cause off-target or “abscopal” effects at distant metastatic lesions. The mechanism through which abscopal effects occur remains unknown, but is thought to be caused by a humoral immune response to tumor-specific antigens generate...

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Main Authors: Danielle Golub, Kevin Kwan, Jonathan P. S. Knisely, Michael Schulder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Oncology
Subjects:
abscopal effect
immunotherapy
meningioma
off-target effect
radiation
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fonc.2019.01109/full

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