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A Century of Radiation Therapy and Adaptive Immunity
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The coming of age for immunotherapy (IT) as a genuine treatment option for cancer
patients through the development of new and effective agents, in particular
immune checkpoint inhibitors, has led to a huge renaissance of an old idea,
namely to harness the power of the immune system to that of radiation therapy
(RT). It is not an overstatement to say that the combination of RT with IT has
provided a new conceptual platform that has re-energized the field of radiation
oncology as a whole. One only has to look at the immense rise in sessions at
professional conferences and in grant applications dealing with this topic to see
its emergence as a force, while the number of published reviews on the topic is
staggering. At the time of writing, over 97 clinical trials have been registered
using checkpoint inhibitors with RT to treat almost 7,000 patients, driven in
part by strong competition between pharmaceutical products eager to find their
market niche. Yet, for the most part, this enthusiasm is based on relatively
limited recent data, and on the clinical success of immune checkpoint inhibitors
as single agents. A few preclinical studies on RT-IT combinations have added real
value to our understanding of these complex interactions, but many assumptions
remain. It seems therefore appropriate to go back in time and pull together what
actually has been a long history of investigations into radiation and the immune
system (Figure 1) in an effort to provide context for this interesting
combination of cancer therapies.