Report of an abscopal effect induced by stereotactic body radiotherapy and nivolumab in a patient with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer
Abstract Background The existence of abscopal effects has been suggested already a long time ago, but only recently with the advent of immune checkpoint inhibition in clinical oncology and modern imaging techniques has it become possible to directly observe such effects in patients. They have been w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-05-01
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| Series: | Radiation Oncology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-018-1049-3 |