Using immunotherapy to boost the abscopal effect
Nature Reviews Cancer 18, 313 (2018).
doi:10.1038/nrc.2018.6
Authors: Wilfred Ngwa, Omoruyi Credit Irabor, Jonathan D. Schoenfeld, Jürgen Hesser, Sandra Demaria & Silvia C. Formenti
More than 60 years ago, the effect whereby radiotherapy at one site may lead to regression of metastatic cancer at distant sites that are not irradiated was described and called the abscopal effect (from 'ab scopus', that is, away from the target). The abscopal effect
Source: Nature Reviews Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Wilfred Ngwa Omoruyi Credit Irabor Jonathan D. Schoenfeld J ΓΌ rgen Hesser Sandra Demaria Silvia C. Formenti Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research