Using immunotherapy to boost the abscopal effect

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 313-322

  Ngwa, Wilfred ^a   Irabor, Omoruyi Credit ^a   Schoenfeld, Jonathan D ^a   Hesser, Jürgen ^b   Demaria, Sandra ^c   Formenti, Silvia C ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DRUG CARRIER; NANOPARTICLE; TUMOR MARKER;

CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONSENSUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TOXICITY; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOTHERAPY;

ANIMALS; BIOMARKERS, TUMOR; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, IMMUNOLOGIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG CARRIERS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NANOPARTICLES; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 85043495119     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc.2018.6     Document Type: Review

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