Elective nodal irradiation mitigates local and systemic immunity generated by combination radiation and immunotherapy in head and neck tumors

Abstract In the setting of conventional radiation therapy, even when combined with immunotherapy, head and neck cancer often recurs locally and regionally. Elective nodal irradiation (ENI) is commonly employed to decrease regional recurrence. Given our developing understanding that immune cells are...

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Main Authors: Laurel B. Darragh, Jacob Gadwa, Tiffany T. Pham, Benjamin Van Court, Brooke Neupert, Nicholas A. Olimpo, Khoa Nguyen, Diemmy Nguyen, Michael W. Knitz, Maureen Hoen, Sophia Corbo, Molishree Joshi, Yonghua Zhuang, Maria Amann, Xiao-Jing Wang, Steven Dow, Ross M. Kedl, Von Samedi, Mary-Keara Boss, Sana D. Karam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34676-w