Is there a role for anti PD-1/checkpoint inhibitors or other immunotherapies with radiation?
Are there any open clinical trials testing this?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
There's a lot of enthusiasm, and fairly little evidence so far. Driving the interest is the observation made over the past several decades, that radiation can induce an immunologic/abscopal response: that by treating one site of disease, a systemic response is initiated that results in r...