Radiotherapy in Combination With Cytokine Treatment

Frontiers in Oncology

Radek Spisek¹  Lenka Palova Jelinkova¹  Nada Hradilova Podzimkova¹  Irena Adkins¹  Ondrej Palata¹  Eva Nedvedova²  Alexandra Umprecht²  Lenka Sadilkova² 

[1] Department of Immunology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Motol, Charles University, Prague, Czechia;SOTIO a.s, Prague, Czechia;

关键词: radiotherapy;    cytokine;    immunocytokine;    immunotherapy;    immunogenic cell death;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fonc.2019.00367

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Radiotherapy (RT) plays an important role in the management of cancer patients. RT is used in more than 50% of patients during the course of their disease in a curative or palliative setting. In the past decades it became apparent that the abscopal effect induced by RT might be dependent on the activation of immune system, and that the induction of immunogenic cancer cell death and production of danger-associated molecular patterns from dying cells play a major role in the radiotherapy-mediated anti-tumor efficacy. Therefore, the combination of RT and immunotherapy is of a particular interest that is reflected in designing clinical trials to treat patients with various malignancies. The use of cytokines as immunoadjuvants in combination with RT has been explored over the last decades as one of the immunotherapeutic combinations to enhance the clinical response to anti-cancer treatment. Here we review mainly the data on the efficacy of IFN-α, IL-2, IL-2-based immunocytokines, GM-CSF, and TNF-α used in combinations with various radiotherapeutic techniques in clinical trials. Moreover, we discuss the potential of IL-15 and its analogs and IL-12 cytokines in combination with RT based on the efficacy in preclinical mouse tumor models.

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