Radiation as an In Situ Auto-Vaccination: Current Perspectives and Challenges

Radiotherapy is generally considered to be a local treatment, but there have been reports of rare cases demonstrating abscopal effects in which antitumor effects have been observed in cancer lesions other than the irradiated site. This result is more likely to occur when immune checkpoint inhibitors...

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Main Author: Taichiro Goto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-08-01
Series:Vaccines
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-393X/7/3/100