The evolving landscape of brain metastasis

M Valiente, MS Ahluwalia, A Boire, PK Brastianos… - Trends in cancer, 2018 - cell.com
Metastasis, involving the spread of systemic cancer to the brain, results in neurologic
disability and death. Current treatments are largely palliative in nature; improved therapeutic …

Treatment of brain metastases with stereotactic radiosurgery and immune checkpoint inhibitors: An international meta-analysis of individual patient data

EJ Lehrer, J Peterson, PD Brown, JP Sheehan… - Radiotherapy and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background and purpose While the combination of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and
immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) is becoming more widely used in the treatment of brain …

Concurrent immune checkpoint inhibitors and stereotactic radiosurgery for brain metastases in non-small cell lung cancer, melanoma, and renal cell carcinoma

L Chen, J Douglass, L Kleinberg, X Ye… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To characterize the effect of concurrent stereotactic radiosurgery–stereotactic
radiation therapy (SRS-SRT) and immune checkpoint inhibitors on patient outcomes and …

Radiation therapy and PD-1/PD-L1 blockade: the clinical development of an evolving anticancer combination

J Gong, TQ Le, E Massarelli, AE Hendifar… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2018 - Springer
Several inhibitors of programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) and programmed death ligand-1 (PD-
L1) have been approved as a form of immunotherapy for multiple cancers. Ionizing radiation …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic strategies synergize with PD-L1/PD-1 targeted cancer immunotherapies to enhance antitumor responses

X Chen, X Pan, W Zhang, H Guo, S Cheng, Q He… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2020 - Elsevier
Immunotherapy strategies targeting the programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-
L1)/programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) pathway in clinical treatments have achieved …

[HTML][HTML] State of the art in combination immuno/radiotherapy for brain metastases: systematic review and meta-analysis

M Najafi, A Jahanbakhshi, M Gomar, C Iotti… - Current …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Objectives: Common origins for brain metastases (BMs) are melanoma, lung, breast, and
renal cell cancers. BMs account for a large share of morbidity and mortality caused by these …

Checkpoint blockade in lung cancer with driver mutation: choose the road wisely.

A Calles, JW Riess, JR Brahmer - American Society of Clinical …, 2020 - europepmc.org
Immune checkpoint blockade with PD-(L) 1 antibodies has revolutionized the treatment of
advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Similarly, the identification and targeting of …

Safety and efficacy of PD‐1/PD‐L1 inhibitors combined with radiotherapy in patients with non‐small‐cell lung cancer: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Y Geng, Q Zhang, S Feng, C Li, L Wang… - Cancer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background A combination of programmed cell death protein‐1 (PD‐1)/programmed cell
death ligand‐1 (PD‐L1) inhibitors and radiotherapy (RT) is increasingly being used to treat …

[HTML][HTML] Systemic treatment of brain metastases in non-small cell lung cancer

S Page, C Milner-Watts, M Perna, U Janzic… - European Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Brain metastases (BrMs) are associated with significant morbidity and are found in up to
50% of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Most of the literature …

PD-1/PD-L1 blockers in NSCLC brain metastases: challenging paradigms and clinical practice

I Eguren-Santamaria, MF Sanmamed… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - aacrjournals.org
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) have revolutionized the management of advanced non–
small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, most pivotal phase III trials systematically …